Dr Pawel (Pavi) Warwicker is a doctor (consultant nephrologist) looking after people with kidney failure and on dialysis. He trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical school, where he was awarded the Wix Prize, a medical history award, for a non-fiction account of the first female British doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell.
In 2006, ‘Polio’, his non-fiction account of the 1952 epidemic of Polio in Copenhagen, was published in Denmark by Gyldendal (now running to a second edition). ‘Polio’ tells the story of an iconic event in medical history which saved the lives of hundreds of children, gave birth to modern intensive care.
He has published articles in the magazines Hospital Doctor and New Statesman.
He is a graduate of the UEA/ Guardian and Faber creative writing courses (tutored by Adam Foulds and Gillian Slovo, respectively).
He is half British and half Polish. He lives in Yorkshire, where he is also the beekeeper at the Arvon centre at Lumb Bank, former home of Ted Hughes.