The winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Triumphing over authors including Elizabeth Strout and Miranda July, debut novelist Yael van der Woude took home the prize for The Safekeep.
Aiming to champion women authors and fresh voices, the prestigious literary award is now in its 30th year. The open-air ceremony was attended by Queen Camilla, who praised Kate Mosse and the other founders of the award. Camilla said, “They believed that women’s stories should be truly heard, understood and honoured; and that it was time to disprove Virginia Woolf’s famous statement that ‘Anon…was often a woman'”.
