June 12, 2025, 3:57pm

Today, the UK’s Women’s Prize Trust announced the winner of the 30th Women’s Prize for Fiction, which “champions excellence, originality, and accessibility in women’s writing,” and is awarded to the best novel of each year written in English and published in the UK, and the winner of the second Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.

The winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is Yael van der Wouden for her “unsettling, tightly-plotted debut novel” The Safekeep.

The winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is Rachel Clarke for her “inspiring, profoundly moving and insightful” The Story of a Heart.

Each winner will receive £30,000; as the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Yael van der Wouden will also receive “a limited-edition bronze statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven,” and as the winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, Rachel Clarke will also receive “a limited-edition artwork known as the ‘Charlotte’, gifted by the Charlotte Aitken Trust.”