"On Wednesday, the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the winners of the fifth annual Science + Literature awards. The books include Kimberly Blaeser's poetry collection, Ancient Light, inspired in part by the environmental destruction of Indigenous communities; the novel Bog Queen by Anna North, the story of a forensic anthropologist and a 2000-year-old Celtic druid; and a work of nonfiction, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian's Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature."
"The Sloan Foundation has a long history of supporting books that join science and the humanities, including Kai Bird's and Martin J. Sherwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus, which director Christopher Nolan adapted into the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. At a time when science is under attack, it has become more urgent to elevate books that bring together the art of literature with the wonders of science, Daisy Hernandez, this year's chair of the awards committee and a 2022 Science + Literature honoree, said in a statement."
Three authors received $10,000 Science + Literature awards from the National Book Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The winning works are Kimberly Blaeser's poetry collection Ancient Light, inspired in part by environmental destruction of Indigenous communities; Anna North's novel Bog Queen, which follows a forensic anthropologist and a 2,000-year-old Celtic druid; and Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian's nonfiction Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. The awards emphasize the joining of science and the humanities, aim to highlight diverse voices in science writing, and seek to elevate literature that illuminates scientific wonder amid contemporary challenges to science.
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