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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ella Creamer and Lucy Knight

Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke.
Yael van der Wouden (left) and Rachel Clarke. Composite: PR, David Levene

Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award.

Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which made last year’s Booker and Baillie Gifford prize shortlists respectively, were announced as the winners on Thursday evening, with each author awarded £30,000.

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