‘At an all-time low’: Women’s Prize Fiction winner Virginia Evans sounds alarm on vanishing letter writing

Virginia Evans’ ‘The Correspondent’ won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction - (PA)

Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Virginia Evans has called for the revival of letter writing, lamenting that “the volume of what circulates the world is probably at an all-time low at this point”.

The American author’s debut novel, The Correspondent, was named this year’s winner of the prestigious prize at a ceremony held in London on Thursday night (11 June). An epistolary tale, the book follows the written correspondence of witty Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman in her seventies who has spent her life writing letters to family, friends and even famous authors.