The 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has announced the following novels which explore themes of personal freedom and human connection:
Good Girl — Aria Aber
All Fours — Miranda July
The Persians — Sanam Mahloudji
Tell Me Everything — Elizabeth Strout
The Safekeep — Yale van der Wouden
Fundamentally — Nussaibah Younis
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the most successful, influential and popular literary prizes, championing and amplifying women’s voices and nurturing a global community of readers. Established in 1996 to highlight and remedy the imbalance in coverage, respect and reverence given to women writers, versus their male peers, it created a platform for writing by women.
The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel of the year, written in English and published in the UK. The winner receives £30,000, anonymously endowed, and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette created by the artist Grizel Niven.
The 2025 process started last summer, when UK publishers are asked to submit eligible books. A panel of five women, all passionate readers and at the top of their respective professions, choose the winner. Judging is based on three core tenets: excellence, originality and accessibility.
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