Science Writing Prize 2012 – Louisa Young on Novels
Science crops up everywhere: videogames, movies and even romantic novels. But just because the premise of a story may be invented doesn’t give the author free reign to bypass accurate science.
When Louisa Young wrote My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011, the Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2011 and the Wellcome Book Prize 2011), it was very important to her that the science at the heart of the fiction was factual and accurate.
In the second of our Communicating Science videos, author Louisa Young touches on her inspiration for the book and her process for creating a romantic novel set amidst the pain of the Great War.
Watch our first Communicating Science video – Tim Radford on Journalism.
Find out more about the Science Writing Prize on the Wellcome Trust website – the closing date is 25 April 2012.
