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

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

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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

Published: 5 Mar 2024

The Guardian view on nonfiction by women: so much buried treasure

Editorial: Nearly three decades after the founding of the Women’s prize, the fight for space in fiction has largely been won. It’s time to move on to politics, history, science, sport…

Published: 18 Jun 2023
Female novelists don’t need their own prizes. Let’s abolish them

Martha Gill

Barbara Kingsolver and others are no longer oppressed – they dominate book sales

Published: 18 Jun 2023

Published: 18 Jun 2023
Books interview
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘Rural people are so angry they want to blow up the system’

The first author to win the Women’s prize for fiction twice on how Charles Dickens – and rage about the opioid crisis – helped her write ‘the great Appalachian novel’

Published: 16 Jun 2023
Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women’s prize for fiction for second time

Winning for Demon Copperhead, a ‘deeply powerful’, US-set Dickens update, the American novelist becomes the first writer to win the contest for a second time

Published: 14 Jun 2023

- Maggie O’Farrell leads sales ahead of Women’s prize for fiction announcement
  
  Published: 13 Jun 2023
- Audiobook of the week
  Trespasses by Louise Kennedy audiobook review – love across the sectarian divide
  
  Published: 2 Jun 2023

‘It’s an opportunity to pull back the curtain’: the rock’n’roll novel is back – from a female perspective

Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles’ tale of a one-hit wonder is the latest in a new wave of music novels written by women

Published: 21 May 2023

‘We were blown away’: how we chose the Women’s prize shortlist

Rachel Joyce

As one of this year’s judges, I have been bowled over by the range and intensity of what we have read, and I’m sure you will be too

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Three debut novels compete among Women’s prize for fiction shortlist

First-time novelists are joined by two former winners on the diverse list, as the six ‘ambitious and hard-hitting’ contenders are revealed

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Maggie O’Farrell and NoViolet Bulawayo make Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Nine debut novels are among the 16 books up for the 2023 award, alongside novels by Natalie Haynes, Sophie Mackintosh and Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 7 Mar 2023

‘Can objects teach us about reality?’: Ruth Ozeki on her Women’s prize-winning novel

Voices of everyday things fill The Book of Form and Emptiness, rooted in how she experienced the loss of her father

Published: 17 Jun 2022
Ruth Ozeki’s ‘complete joy’ of a novel wins Women’s prize for fiction

The Book of Form and Emptiness is praised by judges for its ‘sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence and poignancy’

Published: 15 Jun 2022

‘The pendulum has swung’: Why we female Trinidadian writers are having our moment

Monique Roffey, the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, on the lit-boom that’s happening on the Caribbean island

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

Women’s prize judge Lorraine Candy, journalist Sarah Shaffi and Guardian readers Kate and Saffron discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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