General · 12 June 2026

Evans, Doucet each win £30,000 Women's Prize

Two debut authors, Virginia Evans and Lyse Doucet, have won this year's Women's Prize awards for fiction and nonfiction. Virginia Evans won the fiction award for 'The Correspondent', and BBC's Lyse Doucet took the nonfiction prize. Both debut authors received £30,000 each at a central London ceremony on Thursday evening.

By BriefTea Editorial · 12 June 2026 at 2:00

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