The BBC’s chief international correspondent was awarded the prestigious nonfiction prize for The Finest Hotel in Kabul – which she hopes will bring more attention to the Taliban’s draconian treatment of women

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 BBC’s chief international correspondent was awarded the prestigious nonfiction prize for The Finest Hotel in Kabul – which she hopes will bring more attention to the Taliban’s…