Complexity was the theme of the first Warwick prize for writing, the only cross-disciplinary writing competition in any format. Four books with science content made the long list of 20. Liz Else asked two of the judges, mathematician and fiction writer , about the formidable task of comparing different genres and picking winners.
CM: Some people were very concerned about the problem of comparing apples and pears. For us that was part of the pleasure. Before I started I expected more fiction or poetry, but as it turned out, non-fiction books rose to the surface more readily. We had to let each…
