Jun 05 2019
American novelist Tayari Jones’s portrait of a young African American’s wrongful incarceration, and its devastating impact on his marriage has beaten two Booker prize winners to take the Women’s prize for fiction.
Described by chair of judges Kate Williams as a book that “shines a light on today’s America”, Jones’s fourth novel An American Marriage won the £30,000 award on Wednesday night....
... The Women’s prize is the UK’s only book award for fiction by women. Running for 24 years, it has been won by writers including Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver.
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