The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction is a prize for
non-fiction writing by women, a sister prize to the
Women's Prize for Fiction. It was announced in February 2023 and will first be awarded in 2024, for books published in 2023. Its main prize of £30,000 will be funded for three years by the
Charlotte Aitken Trust, and the winner will also receive a statuette named the Charlotte.
It was announced in June 2023 that the inaugural sponsor of the prize would be the family tree company
Findmypast.
Kate Mosse, announcing the launch of the prize, said it was "not about taking the spotlight away from the brilliant male writers, it's about adding the women in".
The prize entry criteria state that: "Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible. Books must be published in the United Kingdom between 1 April in the year the Prize calls for entries, and 31 March the following year, when the Prize is announced. Books from all narrative non-fiction categories intended for general readership, commonly known as ‘trade non-fiction’, are encouraged, and the judging panel considers the titles submitted using the guiding tenets of excellence, originality and accessibility."
The 2024 judges are historian
Suzannah Lipscomb (chair), fair fashion campaigner
Venetia La Manna, academic, author and consultant, Professor
Nicola Rollock
Nicola Rollock is a British academic, writer and activist. She is professor of social policy and race at King's College London, having previously been reader in equality & education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has written se ...
, biographer and journalist
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba (''née'' Rubinstein, born 1951) is a British biographer, lecturer and journalist. She is the author of nine non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children, and several introductions to reprinted classics.
Life
Anne Sebba ...
, and author and 2018 winner of the
Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel '' Home Fire'' (2017). Named on ''Granta'' magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has bee ...
.
The first longlist for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, of 16 titles, was announced on 15 February 2024.
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The Guardian'' noted that the subject matter of the longlisted books included "Capitalism, artificial intelligence, Renaissance history and motherhood".
The shortlist was announced on 27 March 2024 and the winner on 13 June 2024.
Winners and shortlisted writers
References
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Literary awards honoring women
Non-fiction literary awards
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