Diaries of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing. McAnulty is the youngest ever winner of this prize.
“The Diary of a Young Naturalist is a significant nature book – made all the more so because it is Dara McAnulty’s first, completed before his 16th birthday,” says Julia Bradbury, TV presenter and chair of the judging panel for the UK Nature writing category.
“Our Wainwright Prize winner this year is nuanced, passionate and caring. It’s a wonderful diary that fits around Dara’s personal endeavours and family experiences, but ultimately, shaped by the nature that surrounds us all. The judges were almost breathless from reading it and would like to call for it to be immediately listed on the national curriculum. Such is the book’s power to move and the urgency of the situation we face.”
Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald is the inaugural winner of the new category, Writing on Global Conservation.
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