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Here are the winners of the 2026 Women’s Prizes in Fiction and Nonfiction.

Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to the best novel of each year written in English and published

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Ada Ferrer on “Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter”

“People are buffeted byhistory sometimes in ways that they don't realize. Ourfamily was buffeted by these forces that were much greater than us.” The post Ada Ferrer on “Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter” appeared first on Public Books.

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