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. Read more
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