O'Farrell's novel 'Hamnet' has won the 25th Women's Prize for Fiction. Photo: AP
Maggie O’Farrell won the Women’s Prize for Fiction recently for Hamnet, a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare’s often-maligned wife and lost son.
O’Farrell’s novel beat finalists including Hilary Mantel’s Tudor saga "The Mirror And The Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winner "Girl, Woman, Other to the £30,000 (RM160,000) award.
