{"id":130303,"date":"2020-09-10T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T23:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/?p=130303"},"modified":"2020-09-16T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T23:57:46","slug":"maggie-ofarrell-wins-the-2020-womens-prize-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2020\/09\/10\/maggie-ofarrell-wins-the-2020-womens-prize-for-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie O’Farrell wins the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"2020<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Irish-British novelist Maggie O’Farrell has taken home the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, an historical novel about the death of William Shakespeare’s son.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"2020<\/a>

Maggie O’Farrell<\/p><\/div>\n

2020 marks the 25th year of the prize, which celebrates “excellence, originality, and accessibility in writing by women in English from across the world”. The 2020 prize was awarded during a live digital awards ceremony hosted by Chair of Judges Martha Lane Fox and fellow judge Paula Hawkins. O’Farrell will take home \u00a330,000 in prize money along with the \u2018Bessie\u2019, a limited-edition bronze figurine that was donated by the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n

Hamnet<\/em> was selected as the 2020 Women’s Prize winner from a fierce shortlist that included previous Booker winner Girl, Woman, Other<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Bernardine Evaristo and the acclaimed finale to the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror and the Light<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Hilary Mantel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martha Lane Fox said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe euphoria of being in the same room for the final judging meeting was quickly eclipsed by the excitement we all feel about this exceptional winner. Hamnet<\/em>, while set long ago, like all truly great novels expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations Maggie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read our review of Hamnet<\/em> here<\/a> and find out more about the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maggie O’Farrell’s historical novel Hamnet is this year’s winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":130309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1974,11125,7161,9290,7163,3435,6824],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2020WomensPrizeWinner-Social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130303"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130675,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130303\/revisions\/130675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}