Maggie O’Farrell Wins Women’s Prize for Fiction: ‘Hamnet’
Maggie O’Farrell is the twenty fifth recipient of the Women’s Fiction Prize for her novel, Hamnet, a fictional narrative of the life of William Shakespeare’s son.
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Just Released: Shortlist for the 25th Women’s Prize for Fiction
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the prize and includes an impressive list of authors we hold dear to our hearts.
Trans Non-Binary Author Akwaeke Emezi Nominated for Women’s Prize in Fiction
Well this is exciting news. According to the Guardian, the Women’s prize for fiction has nominated a non-binary trans author. The author in question is Akwaeke Emezi, a thirty-one year old Nigerian author, who has been nominated for their first novel, Freshwater. Freshwater tells the tale of a woman called Ada, who has to deal with a ‘fractured self’ as new personalities emerge in her mind and threaten to take over Ada’s mind. Emezi is one of seven authors up for the prize, with the judges considering the nomination a ‘historic moment’. The judges for their part say they were not …