The Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 winner has been announced - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life The Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2021 winner has been announced By You Magazine - September 9, 2021 Now in it’s 26th year, The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 announced it’s winner last night, on 8 September. Susanna Clarke took the title for her fantasy novel Piranesi, which is about ‘what it means to be human’. …And without further ado, we are thrilled to reveal that the 2021 #WomensPrize for Fiction winner is Susanna Clarke with Piranesi ? pic.twitter.com/rCzMbzWl11 - Women's Prize (@WomensPrize) September 8, 2021 The book’s description reads: ‘Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides which thunder up staircases, the clouds which move in slow procession through the upper halls. ‘On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food and waterlilies to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? ‘Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.’ Amazon Piranesi, £14.23, Amazon The winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction receives £30,000 and a bronze figurine known as Bessie for their prize. Getty Images The prize this year was judged by novelist Bernadine Evaristo, podcaster, author and journalist Elizabeth Day, TV and radio presenter, journalist and writer Vick Hope, print columnist and writer Nesrine Malik and news presenter and broadcaster Sarah-Jane Mee. Bernardine Evaristo, whose novel Girl, Woman, Other won the 2019 Booker Prize, said: ‘We wanted to find a book that we’d press into readers’ hands, which would have a lasting impact. With her first novel in seventeen years, Susanna Clarke has given us a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be. She has created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human.’ In April, the 6-strong list of books that made the shortlist for this year’s prize were revealed. Getty Images If your TBR (to be read) list is looking a little thin at the moment, as always the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist forms an excellent guide for what to read this year. These are some of the absolute best novels written by female authors this year, so you can be guaranteed each one will be as fulfilling a read as the next. The Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood The 16 book-strong longlist featured a range of new and established authors, with novels covering a wide range of genres and themes – ‘family (twins and siblings, mother-daughter relationships); motherhood; rural poverty and isolation; addiction; identity and belonging; race and class; grief and happiness; coming-of-age and later life,’ reads the Women’s Prize for Fiction website. 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