Winner of the 25th Women's Prize for Fiction

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Here it is, the 25th Women's Prize winner!         We are absolutely thrilled to reveal that Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and is crowned the Prize’s 25th winner with her eighth novel Hamnet. Watch the moment Maggie won > O’Farrell’s Hamnet, set in 1596 and inspired by the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son, was chosen from a shortlist that included Dominicana by Angie Cruz, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel and Weather by Jenny Offill. Find out more about Hamnet > Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, said: “Hamnet, while set long ago, like all truly great novels expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring.” In a live digital awards ceremony developed for the 25th year, the 2020 Chair of Judges Martha Lane Fox announced Maggie O’Farrell as the winner live from London, while fellow judge Paula Hawkins presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the ‘Bessie’, a limited-edition bronze figurine, in her hometown of Edinburgh. Huge congratulations, Maggie! Read more >         Thank you, and a chance to catch up...         We just want to say an enormous thank you to those of you who have joined us (virtually) for our three shortlist readings events this week.  We've been blown away by so many of you tuning in across the world,  from London to Johannesburg, Glasgow to Melbourne. You've made the 25th Women's Prize for Fiction awards week so very special. If you've missed any of our inspiring events, featuring live Q&As with our 2020 shortlisted authors and well-known actors performing readings, you can catch up on them in full at the below link. Don't delay, they'll only be available for a week. Watch the events now >

 

 

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Join us live for the reveal of the 2020 winner         Tonight is the night! At 7pm we will reveal the 25th winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. And you can be there in the room with us.   For the first time ever, you can bag yourself a front row seat to the winner announcement, with the chance to be the first to put your questions to the winning author in the moments after the big reveal.   Grab your ticket now > Or, join us on the Prize Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, where we'll be streaming the announcement live from 7pm BST sharp. Follow us so you don't miss it >         Missed our shortlist readings events?         Missed our shortlist readings event last night? The final evening featured shortlisted authors Bernardine Evaristo and Jenny Offill, plus Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall and The Morning Show's Gugu Mbatha-Raw bringing their shortlisted novels to life with incredible readings. You can now watch it, and all of the shortlist readings events, in full at the link below. Be quick though, they're only available for a week! Watch the shortlist readings events >         Watch the new series of My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name         As an extra little gift on the day of the winner announcement, we're excited to bring you something very special from our friends at Fremantle, the global creative powerhouse behind the adaptations of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. As the perfect early-Autumn viewing treat, they have made a limited number of exclusive places available to watch the second series of My Brilliant Friend: The Story Of A New Name. For your chance to watch the series for as part of a special Fremantle digital screening exclusive to the Women's Prize, head to our website. Enter now >

 

 

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Don't miss our final shortlist readings night!         Be in the room for the final shortlist readings event tonight featuring a live Q&A with Bernardine Evaristo and Jenny Offill, and fantastic performances of extracts from actors Kim Cattrall and Gugu-Mbatha Raw. Plus get a front row seat to the winner announcement tomorrow, with the chance to be the first to put your questions to the winning author in the moments after the big reveal.     Grab your ticket > Missed last night? The second event of our virtual literary festival featured shortlisted authors Maggie O'Farrell and Natalie Haynes, plus BAFTA nominee Anne-Marie Duff and Game of Thrones actor Indira Varma performing incredible readings from their shortlisted novels. You can now watch it in full at the link below. Watch it here >         Hayley Atwell and Vick Hope on our shortlist         Ahead of tomorrow's Women’s Prize for Fiction winner announcement, we asked six celebrities to review each book on this year’s shortlist. Our final reviewers are actor Hayley Atwell and TV and radio presenter Vick Hope, who have given us their thoughts on Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Jenny Offill's Weather, ahead of the final shortlist readings event tonight. Read the reviews >

 

 

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