Brotherless Night wins Fiction Prize; Doppelganger wins Non-Fiction Prize, both worth £30,000
American author VV Ganeshananthan has won the £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her deeply moving, powerful second novel, Brotherless Night, which depicts a family fractured by the Sri Lankan civil war.
Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren and Claire Kilroy’s Soldier, Sailor were also on the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist. Brotherless Night vividly and compassionately centres erased and marginalised stories – Tamil women, students, teachers, ordinary civilians – exploring the moral nuances of violence and terrorism against a backdrop of oppression and exile.
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