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The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction

Georgina Godwin meets Yael Van Der Wouden and Rachel Clarke, the winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction for their works ‘The Safekeep’ and ‘The Story of A Heart’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair

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  Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival

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  The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

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  Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

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  The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

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  Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

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  Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

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  Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

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  Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

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  Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

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  Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

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  Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

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  R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

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  Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

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  Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

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  Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit