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06-08-2025
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‘Intertidal' by Yuvan Aves makes the shortlist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
The Wainwright Prizes announced its shortlist on Tuesday. Indian writer and naturalist Yuvan Aves has made the shortlist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing for his book Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary. He is the first Indian to be nominated for the award. The shortlist comprises seven titles. The prize showcases writing that reflects its namesake Alfred Wainwright's values of celebrating nature and our environment, nurturing respect for our planet, and informing readers of the threats that the earth currently faces. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on September 10 at FarmED in Oxford, UK. The other books on the shortlist are: Callum Robinson's Ingrained is a tribute to trees, timber, and craftsmanship, while Yuvan Aves' Intertidal reveals an unseen world, asking us to reimagine values to live by. Paul Lamb's Of Thorn and Briar celebrates the benefits of hedgerows and a way of living that has all but disappeared, and Merlin Hanbury-Tenison's Our Oaken Bones connects personal history with the natural environment. Chloe Dalton's Raising Hare chronicles an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, while Richard Mabey's The Accidental Garden explores gardens as places of cultural and ecological fusion. Finally, Jason Allen-Paisant's The Possibility of Tenderness explores personal and people's history through plants and migration.
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05-07-2025
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‘Intertidal' by Indian writer Yuvan Aves longlisted for 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing
Indian writer and naturalist Yuvan Aves has been longlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing for his book Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary. He is the first Indian to be nominated for the award. The longlist comprises 12 titles. Over two years and three monsoons, Yuvan Aves paid scrupulous attention to the living world of a coastal city. The result was a diary of deep observation of the coast and wetland, climate and self. Set in beaches and marshes, and the wild places of the mind, Intertidal comprises daily accounts of being in a multispecies milieu. The shortlist will be announced on August 5, and the winner on September 10. Now in its 12th year, the Wainwright Prizes are named after nature writer Alfred Wainwright. The Prizes recognise books that shape a greener future and help readers see the natural world, and their place within it, more clearly. From personal journeys through wild landscapes to bold investigations into environmental challenges, these are the stories that connect people and planet. This year, the Prizes will be awarded in six categories
