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Women's prizes

June 2024

  • VV Ganeshananthan: she is pictured standing outdoors in a park with trees in the background; she is in her mid-40s and has shoulder-length dark, wavy hair; she wears a black dress with a lighter pattern plus a gold pendant necklace.

    ‘Don’t read just one book about Sri Lanka’: VV Ganeshananthan on her civil war novel

    Women’s prize for fiction winner tells story of a family caught up in conflict in her second novel, Brotherless Night
  • Naomi Klein.

    Naomi Klein: ‘Nobody’s perfect – but that’s not an excuse for doing nothing’

    The Doppelganger writer and winner of the Women’s prize for nonfiction on the war in Gaza, current credibility of the left and posters for her book being torn down in London
  • Naomi Klein and VV Ganeshananthan.

    VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction

    Judges praised Klein’s Doppelganger for its ‘courageous’ study of truth in politics and called Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night a ‘masterpiece’ of historical fiction

April 2024

  • Women's prize for fiction shortlist 2024.

    Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

  • Women's prize for fiction 2024 judges: (from left) Indira Varma; Anna Whitehouse; Monica Ali; Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Laura Dockrill.

    ‘Six spellbinding and thought-provoking novels’: why we chose the Women’s prize for fiction shortlist

March 2024

  • Women's prize for nonfiction shortlist 2024.

    Naomi Klein and Laura Cumming shortlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction

    Joining the Guardian columnist and Observer art critic are academics Tiya Miles and Noreen Masud, FT journalist Madhumita Murgia and poet Safiya Sinclair
  • Women's prize for nonfiction 2024 judges: Kamila Shamsie; Nicola Rollock; Suzannah Lipscomb and Venetia La Manna. (Not pictured: Anne Sebba)

    Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist

    The award’s chair of judges talks us through the contenders – from a study of AI’s underbelly to a poignant autobiography – and why they made the final six
  • Women's prize for fiction longlist 2024.

    Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

    Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

February 2024

  • Dolphin Junction by Mick Herron; Wifedom by Anna Funder; Labours of Love by Madeleine Bunting.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

  • Women's prize for nonfiction longlist.

    Guardian writer and Observer critic longlisted for inaugural Women’s prize for nonfiction

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