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Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Kirkus Prize · 2020 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | 2020 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Rebecca Giggs's meditation begins with a beached whale in Australia and expands into a reckoning with ocean ecology, plastic pollution, and humanity's relationship to the deep. Shortlisted for the Kirkus Prize.
About the Author
Rebecca GiggsAustralian
Rebecca Giggs is an Australian nonfiction writer and essayist born in London, UK in 1982, who moved to Perth, Western Australia at an early age; she holds a PhD in ecological literary studies from the University of Western Australia (2014) and is an honorary fellow at Macquarie University. Solitude. Her debut book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2020), won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, Nib Literary Award, and Western Australian Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer, among others, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and Wainwright Prize. Read more →
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