Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award. Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s Th...
06.12.2025 Theguardian.com and 2 sitesLONDON (AP) — Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep, ” a story of repressed emotion and historical memory in the Netherlands ...
06.12.2025 yahoo.com , sfgate.com and 54 sitesThe Women’s Prize has crowned its 2025 winners. The UK charity chose Yael van der Wouden and her 2024 novel “The Safekeep” as this year’s Women’s Prize for fiction winner at a ceremony June 12. “The S...
06.12.2025 yahoo.com , usatoday.com , freep.com and 10 sitesThe Women’s Prize has crowned its 2025 winners. The UK charity chose Yael van der Wouden and her 2024 novel “The Safekeep” as this year’s Women’s Prize for fiction winner at a ceremony June 12. “The S...
06.12.2025 yahoo.com , independent.co.uk and 18 sitesI didn’t expect the first thing I’d see at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition preview party to be a mac ‘n’ cheese van. Yet, as I tactically tottered in my heels underneath the building’s ornate archway, and into the museum’s famous Annenberg Courtyard for its annual societal bash, there it was to my left. A small, blue van much like the kind you’d find on the muddied fields of Glastonbury Festival , serving up some good greasy grub to the most glittering crowd in London – and there was...
06.12.2025 Independent.co.ukOrlaine McDonald and I meet at her home in southeast London on an outrageously gorgeous May morning. McDonald, who is 55 but looks not a day above 40, greets me with a big smile and a resonant voice t...
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06.08.2025 Scroll.inFire engulfs a classroom at the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City following an Israeli strike, May 26, 2025. One of the most remarkable—not to say shameful—features of the last 20 months of carnage...
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