diary Brooke Magnanti
8 November 2012
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize, honouring medicine in literature, announced Thomas Wright’s Circulation as victor last night at the Wellcome Collection in Euston. The judges included Mark Lawson, Ruth Padel and Dr Brooke Magnanti, alter ego of Belle de Jour, who has a PhD in forensic pathology
“It was interesting being involved because now people know who I am as a writer, it’s hard to reconcile the science I do,” she told me.
She insists her Belle de Jour days are behind her although she recently published The Sex Myth, an investigation into sex and society. “I think things are less clear now,” she explained, “but saying that, when I was a kid everyone was flipping out about how scandalous Madonna was and 25 years later we still are.”
