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Women's Prize for Fiction: Yael Van Der Wouden Wins for The Safekeep
- Yael van der Wouden, a novelist from the Netherlands, received the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her first book, The Safekeep, at an event held in central London on Thursday.
- The novel received the award after judges commended it for skillfully combining historical detail, suspenseful storytelling, and genuine period accuracy in its 1960s Netherlands setting.
- British doctor Rachel Clarke received the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction for her book The Story of a Heart, a moving account that examines the lives of two families connected through a heart transplant and the process of organ donation.
- Both winners will receive £30,000 each along with limited-edition art: van der Wouden will get the bronze Bessie statuette and Clarke the Charlotte artwork.
- The Women’s Prize Trust presented these awards to celebrate compelling narratives about relationships and emotional experiences while advocating for fair opportunities for women in the literary world.
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Debut Novel Wins Women's Prize
A sweeping romance set in 1960s Netherlands—the author's first novel—and a moving tale of organ donation have claimed this year's Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction, verdicts that honor powerful stories of love, loss, and human connection. Dutch author Yael van der Wouden won for her debut, The...
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The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 went to Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for her debut novel, The Safekeep. The win, she says, is her "greatest honour" as an intersex woman
Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for The Safekeep, a tender love story set in the Netherlands in the early 1960s, in the shadow of the horrors endured by Dutch Jews during the war.
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