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Maggie O’Farrell wins Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet
Novel about death of Shakespeare’s son wins £30,000 award for Co Derry-born author
Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 19:15
Maggie O’Farrell has won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, her novel inspired by the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son.
It was chosen from a shortlist that included the Booker Prize winning Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel , the concluding part of her double Booker winning Wolf Hall trilogy.