Naomi Alderman is the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner. (Baileys Prize/Twitter)The 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Naomi Alderman's dystopian novel The Power, which is set in a world where teenage girls have suddenly acquired the ability to cause pain and death with a simple touch. The £30,000 ($52,062.00 Cdn) prize, previously known as the Orange Prize, is a U.K.-based award that annually recognizes the best in fiction written by women around the world. The Power follows four main characters and explores themes of religion and censorship through the lenses of power and gender politics. Her nominated novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.

Source: CBC News June 07, 2017 20:37 UTC