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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Emma Loffhagen

Women’s prize: Virginia Evans wins for fiction and Lyse Doucet takes award for nonfiction

Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet.
Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet. Composite: Austin Joffe, Paula Bronstein

Debut novelist Virginia Evans has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet took home the nonfiction award, also for her debut.

Evans’s The Correspondent and Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul were announced as the winners at a ceremony in central London on Thursday evening, with each author awarded £30,000.

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