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Announcing the 2026 Women's Prize Winners

Awarded annually in the UK, the Women’s Prize celebrates outstanding fiction and nonfiction written by women from around the world. This year’s award-winning books were selected from two brilliant shortlists featuring sweeping novels and illuminating works of nonfiction. Without further ado, we congratulate the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prize.

Women's Prize for Fiction Winner

The Correspondent (Women's Prize for Fiction Winner)

Virginia Evans

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Notes From Your Bookseller

Told through charming, deeply moving letters, The Correspondent unfolds as a tender story of love, friendship and forgiveness. With humor and grace, Virginia Evans explores the bittersweet journey of growing older and the courage it takes to embrace the winds of change.

Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Winner 

 

Notes From Your Bookseller

Founded in 1969, the halls of the Inter-Continental Kabul are rich in history. Lyse Doucet takes readers through every inch of Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel by detailing the inspiring, hopeful and sometimes tragic lives of those who work, visit and live there.

Explore This Year's Fiction Shortlist

Explore This Year's Nonfiction Shortlist