Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her novel Piranesi
Chair of judges and novelist Bernardine Evaristo, said: “We wanted to find a book that we’d press into readers’ hands, which would have a lasting impact. With her first novel in seventeen years, Susanna Clarke has given us a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be. She has created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human.”
This year, Bernardine was joined by Elizabeth Day, podcaster, author and journalist; Vick Hope, TV and Radio presenter, journalist and writer; Nesrine Malik, Guardian columnist and writer; and Sarah-Jane Mee, Sky news presenter and broadcaster. Explore the books they’ve chosen below.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction – one of the greatest annual, international celebrations of women’s creativity, now in its 26th year – honours outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world.
Brit Bennett
Susanna Clarke
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Patricia Lockwood
Brit Bennett
Clare Chambers
Susanna Clarke
Amanda Craig
Naoise Dolan
Avni Doshi
Dawn French
Claire Fuller
Yaa Gyasi
Cherie Jones
Raven Leilani
Patricia Lockwood
Annabel Lyon
Kathleen MacMahon
Torrey Peters
Ali Smith
Longlist
announced
Shortlist
announced
Winner
announced
Tune into host Vick Hope and a line-up of incredible guests on our weekly podcast full of unmissable book recommendations.
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