Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespearean 'Hamnet' wins Women's Prize


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O'Farrell's novel 'Hamnet' has won the 25th Women's Prize for Fiction. Photo: AP

Maggie O’Farrell won the Women’s Prize for Fiction recently for Hamnet, a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare’s often-maligned wife and lost son.

O’Farrell’s novel beat finalists including Hilary Mantel’s Tudor saga "The Mirror And The Light” and Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winner "Girl, Woman, Other to the £30,000 (RM160,000) award.

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