Maggie O’Farrell—Women’s Prize for Fiction (award relationship)

Maggie O’Farrell’s award relationship with the Women’s Prize for Fiction is established through Hamnet, her 2020 novel, for which she received the prize. The award is the clearest recognition specified in the biographical note for this work.

The Award

The biographical note identifies Hamnet as the novel for which O’Farrell received the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction. It does not give the award year or further details about the prize’s selection process.

Publication and Reception

Hamnet was published in 2020 and appeared from Libros del Asteroide in 2021. The note places the prize among broader recognition for the novel: critics and readers considered it one of the year’s major novels, and The New York Times and The Washington Post each included it among their ten best books of 2020.