The winner of the 2021 Women’s Fiction Prize was announced this evening in the UK. The recipient of the award receives a “Bessie”, limited bronze figurine, and a £30,000 cash prize.
And the winner is…
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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.”
Bernardine Evaristo, 2021 Chair of Judges
Congratulations to Susanna Clarke!
How the One Armed Woman Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones Publisher : Little, Brown and Company 
