🏆 Winners Announced
The 2026 Women's Prize Winners
The 2026 Women's Prize winners were announced last night at Bedford Square Gardens in London. Two prizes, two extraordinary books — a debut novel composed entirely in letters and a richly immersive history of modern Afghanistan told through one hotel that survived everything.
🏆 Winner — Women's Prize for Fiction
The Correspondent
🏆 Winner — Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
The Women's Prize was created in 1996 because the Booker Prize once shortlisted zero women. Thirty years later, both of this year's winners are debut books — which tells you everything about where women's writing is right now.
