Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, her novel inspired by the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son. The last year has seen some stunning fiction by women writers, and Hamnet stands out as a work of immense elegance and emotional heft. Discussing the Covid crisis, O’Farrell told The Irish Times: “The important thing is to look after each other and see ourselves, our families, our societies as an interlinked organism. O’Farrell’s success is the second major prize won by an Irish author in two days. Co Down teenager Dara McAnulty won the Wainwright Prize for nature writing last night for his first book, Diary of a Young Naturalist.

Source: The Irish Times September 09, 2020 18:16 UTC