This book comprised entirely of letters just won the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet win Women's Prize book awards

Virginia Evans wins Women's Prize for Fiction with "The Correspondent," Lyse Doucet wins Nonfiction for "The Finest Hotel in Kabul"—each £30,000. The nonfiction prize (2024) addresses publishing's gender gap: only 26.5% of British nonfiction books in 2022 were authored by women.