‘We can’t give up on Afghans’: Lyse Doucet on the remarkable ‘people’s history’ that won her the Women’s prize

Debut novel and powerful Afghan history by war journalist win the Women’s Prizes

Virginia Evans's debut "The Correspondent" and BBC journalist Lyse Doucet's "The Finest Hotel in Kabul" won the 2026 Women's Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction, each with a £30,000 award. Literary recognition reinforces narrative media as commercial asset, though holds no direct relevance to tech governance or IT decision-making.