Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs is a London-based Australian nonfiction writer, known for Fathoms: The World in the Whale.

Life and Career

Giggs was born in the UK and moved to Western Australia at an early age[1]. She studied at the University of Western Australia. She holds an LLB, BA Arts (Hons) and a PhD in ecological literary studies conferred in 2014.[2]

Giggs is an honorary fellow at the Macquarie University in Sydney.[3] She was awarded the 2017 Mick Dark flagship fellowship by Varuna for "The Whale in the Room", the working title for Fathoms.[4] She won support from Writers Victoria through the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to visit the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany as a writing fellow in 2018.[5]

As an essayist, Giggs has contributed to The Atlantic on science subjects from "Why We're Afraid of Bats" to "Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It".[6]

Her first book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, was published in 2020 worldwide by Scribe[7] and by Simon & Schuster in the USA.[8]

Awards and recognition

Kirkus Reviews named Fathoms in their "10 Top Summer Reads in Nonfiction"[9] and described the book as "a thoughtful, ambitiously crafted appeal for the preservation of marine mammals".[10] In November 2020 Giggs won the Nib Literary Award[11] and in February 2021 she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Fathoms.[12] In 2021, Fathoms was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, alongside David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet and others, in the Global Conservation Writing category.[13]

Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
2020 Fathoms Kirkus Prize Nonfiction Finalist [14]
Nib Literary Award — Won [11]
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Emerging Writer Won [15]
2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Nonfiction Won [12]
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award — Shortlisted [16]
Stella Prize — Shortlisted [17]
Wainwright Prize Global Conservation Shortlisted [13]
"Soundings" Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing — Shortlisted [18][19]

Bibliography

Books

Reviews

References

  1. ^ Choudhury, Chandrahas (April 2023). "Rebecca Giggs — Akademie Schloss Solitude". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Archived from the original on 22 May 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Award Verification Service: Rebecca April Giggs". The University of Western Australia. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Rebecca Giggs". Macquarie University. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Varuna announces recipients of 2017 Residency Fellowships". Books+Publishing. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund round-two recipients". Books+Publishing. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  6. ^ Giggs, Rebecca. "Rebecca Giggs". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  7. ^ Giggs, Rebecca (2020). Fathoms: The world in the whale. Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications. ISBN 978-1-925321-38-8. OCLC 1153440206.
  8. ^ Giggs, Rebecca (2020). Fathoms: The world in the whale (First ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-2069-6. OCLC 1124313331.
  9. ^ Liebetrau, Eric (6 July 2020). "10 Top Summer Reads in Nonfiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Fathoms: The World in the Whale". Kirkus Reviews. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  11. ^ a b "'Fathoms' wins Nib Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Giggs wins ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal". Books+Publishing. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  13. ^ a b "Sethi, Winn and Rebanks shortlisted for Wainwright Prize". The Bookseller. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  14. ^ "The 2020 Kirkus Prize". www.bookreporter.com. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  15. ^ "WA Premier's Book Awards announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  16. ^ "Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  18. ^ "Rebecca Giggs shortlisted for Bragg Prize for Science Writing | Rebecca-giggs-shortlisted-for-bragg-prize-for-science-writing | Scribe Publications". scribepublications.com.au. 13 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  19. ^ "Bragg Prize for Science Writing shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
  20. ^ Giggs, Rebecca (13 June 2019). "What Lies Beneath". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  21. ^ Giggs, Rebecca (21 December 2023). "The Lost World". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 70, no. 20. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
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