Wellcome book prize winner backs Guardian's climate campaign

Marion Coutts, winning author of The Iceberg, gives full support to campaign calling on Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation to divest from fossil fuels

Marion Coutts, winner of the Wellcome book prize, has given her full support to the Guardian’s climate change campaign asking the Wellcome Trust health charity to sell off its large investments in fossil fuels.

“I support your campaign in every way,” she told the Guardian, after Wednesday evening’s prize ceremony. “We need to think very carefully about how we live and about how we manage our resources. We are clearly not doing things very well at the moment.”

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