Virginia Evans’s moving debut The Correspondent and Lyse Doucet’s powerful history The Finest Hotel in Kabul have triumphed at the 2026 Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction, respectively

American novelist Virginia Evans has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction with “The Correspondent,” a bestseller told in letters.

BBC foreign correspondent Lyse Doucet picks up the award for non-fiction with her ‘excellent reporting’ on the human story behind Kabul’s InterContinental hotel

Virginia Evans’s moving debut The Correspondent and Lyse Doucet’s powerful history The Finest Hotel in Kabul have triumphed at the 2026 Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction,…

The winners of the 2026 prize received cash award of £30,000 each.