Author Ali Smith has won the 2015 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction with her novel How to be Both. The winning book was picked out of a shortlist featuring authors Rachel Cusk, Laline Paull, Kamila Shamsie, Anne Tyler and Sarah Waters.
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction aims to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing globally. How to be Both is certainly original, there are two editions each with their own narrative that tells the same story but with two different characters.
Shami Chakrabarti, Chair of Judges, described the winning novel: “Ancient and modern meet and speak to each other in this tender, brilliant and witty novel of grief, love, sexuality and shape-shifting identity.”
The winner of the prize receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a ‘Bessie’, created by the artist Grizel Niven.
Inspired to write an award winning novel, but don’t know where to start? Why not come to our Comedy Writing workshop on Saturday 6th June and receive helpful advice from BAFTA award-winning writer, Gail Renard!
