Women's prize for fiction
One in five shortlisted authors for top UK literary prizes in 2020 were black
Racial diversity has gradually increased, after no black authors were shortlisted in four of the years between 1996 and 2009
Aamna Mohdin, Tobi Thomas, Georgina Quach and Zala Šeško
01, Oct, 2021 @12:52 PM
Susanna Clarke: ‘I’d really ceased to think of myself as a writer’
The author on how the celebration of solitude in her Women’s prize-winning new novel, Piranesi, grew from her experience of a long illness
Lisa Allardice
11, Sep, 2021 @7:30 AM
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a triumphantly unusual Women’s prize winner
Taking on uncanny relevance this year, this austere story of one man’s isolation explores profound questions of freedom
Justine Jordan
08, Sep, 2021 @6:23 PM
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi favourite to win Women’s prize for fiction
Bookmaker Coral makes Clarke’s second novel 5/2 favourite to take £30,000 award, followed by Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
Alison Flood
03, Sep, 2021 @10:25 AM
The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit
Literary prize culture favours young and marketable writers – and the new Futures scheme is simply adding to the problem
Joanna Walsh
20, Aug, 2021 @5:00 PM
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones review – barbarity in Barbados
A woman’s struggle against domestic violence is at the centre of a grim debut novel, which mixes in murder, rape and incest for good measure
Hephzibah Anderson
23, May, 2021 @2:00 PM
Cherie Jones: ‘I found my tribe on the pages of John Wyndham’s Chrysalids’
The Women’s prize nominee on the brilliance of Earl Lovelace, the influence of Toni Morrison, and laughing out loud at Nora Ephron’s chutzpah
Cherie Jones
07, May, 2021 @9:00 AM
Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees
Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award
Alison Flood
28, Apr, 2021 @5:30 PM
Women’s prize condemns online attack on trans nominee Torrey Peters
Open letter had claimed that the longlisting of the Detransition, Baby author signalled that female writers were unworthy of their own prize
Sian Cain
07, Apr, 2021 @4:51 PM
Maggie O'Farrell: ‘Severe illness refigures you – it’s like passing through a fire’
The Women’s prize winner reflects on the life‑threatening virus that shaped her writing, the superstitions that held her back, and why her prize-winning novel Hamnet speaks to our times
Lisa Allardice
27, Mar, 2021 @9:00 AM
First trans woman makes Women's prize longlist, alongside Dawn French and Ali Smith
Torrey Peters among 16 finalists, with chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo lamenting lack of older writers
Alison Flood
10, Mar, 2021 @6:00 PM
I used to think fiction was indulgent. Judging the Women's prize reminded me it is essential | Nesrine Malik
I thought I would read more novels once the news slowed – I didn’t expect the emotional impact of reading so much fiction in lockdown, writes Nesrine Malik
Nesrine Malik
10, Mar, 2021 @6:00 PM
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