The Literature is over the moon to reveal Susanna Clarke's achievements who had won one of the most prestigious Awards of the year in writing. She had bagged the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction with her 2nd novel Piranesi.
AWARDS CEREMONY
At the awards ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens, London, hosted by Novelist and Women’s Prize Founder Director, Kate Mosse – the 2021 Chair of Judges, Bernardine Evaristo presented Susanna with the £30,000 prize, endowed by an anonymous donor, and the ‘Bessie’, a limited edition bronze figurine by Grizel Niven.
What Judges said about the Winner?
2021 Grand Chair of Judges Bernardine Evaristo, said: “We wanted to find a book that we’d press into readers’ hands, which would have a lasting impact. With her first novel in seventeen years, Susanna Clarke has given us a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be. She has created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human.”
ABOUT THE WINNER
The talented author Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi (2020) has won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction, the news had announced on the 8th of September at London’s Bedford Square Gardens. Many Publishing Perspectives readers will know Clarke as the author of the 2004 Bloomsbury release, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which was sold into at least 34 countries and produced as a television series by the Curtis Brown Group’s Cuba Pictures with BBC and BBC America in 2015.
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