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Two Faber titles have made the six-strong shortlist for the £50,000 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing.
Derek Walcott's T S Eliot Prize-winning collection White Egrets and Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil will be battling The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury), Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes (Yale), What Color is the Sacred by Michael Taussig (Chaicago) and The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences by Peter D McDonald (OUP).
The biennial, crossdisciplinary prize, run by the University of Warwick, awards substantial pieces of writing in the English language, in any genre or form. This year's entries had to interpret the theme of “colour".
Chair of judges Michael Rosen said: "We have chosen six excellent books across poetry, anthropology, science and fiction. Each in their own way, the books explore colour either on its own terms or as a prism through which the writing emerges. I'm looking forward to some tough arguing over choosing the winner."
The winner will be announced on 22nd March 2011.