Brotherless Night wins the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction

13/06/2024

We are so proud to announce that V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night is the winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction! The news was announced at a ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens in Central London on June 13th.

Monica Ali, chair of judges for the fiction prize, said: “Brotherless Night is a brilliant, compelling and deeply moving novel that bears witness to the intimate and epic-scale tragedies of the Sri Lankan civil war. In rich, evocative prose, Ganeshananthan creates a vivid sense of time and place and an indelible cast of characters. Her commitment to complexity and clear-eyed moral scrutiny combines with spellbinding storytelling to render Brotherless Night a masterpiece of historical fiction.”

We’re wishing huge congratulations to V.V. Ganeshananthan and her agent Stephanie Cabot!