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The American author’s epistolary debut, about a witty, letter-loving woman in her seventies, has inspired readers across the world to pick up a pen

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Virginia Evans’s took home the award for best fiction novel.

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BBC foreign correspondent Lyse Doucet picks up the award for non-fiction with her ‘excellent reporting’ on the human story behind Kabul’s InterContinental hotel

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Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000
Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose prize for I Want to Talk to You, a nonfiction collection on subjects ranging from Jean Rhys and Toni Morrison to lockdowns and the British monarchy.
The book, described as a “pleasure and an invigoration” by the Guardian’s reviewer Alex Clark, was announced as the 10th winner at a reception on Wednesday evening.
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A renowned academic, Wood was hit by a car as he was crossing a supermarket’s parking lot and later died of the injuries
Gordon S Wood, a Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian, was killed on Sunday when he was struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in Rhode Island.
Wood, 92, won the Pulitzer in 1993 in the history category for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, a landmark tome that advanced the theory of the break with Britain being at least as much of an internal social and political transformation as a desire to be rid of colonial masters.
This story was amended on 8 June 2026 to correct the Pulitzer prize-winning book’s title to The Radicalism of the American Revolution.
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