The winner of the 2024 Writers' Prize (formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize) Book of the Year is The Home Child by Liz Berry, who also won in the poetry category. Other category winners are, in fiction, The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright; and, in nonfiction, Thunderclap by Laura Cumming, the Bookseller reported.
The overall winner receives £30,000 (about $38,240), and the category winners receive £2,000 (about $2,550). Open to all works of literature, regardless of form, this year's shortlist and winners were decided by the Folio Academy, made up of more than 350 writers.
Minna Fry, director of the prize, said: "This year, in our new incarnation as the Writers' Prize, we have been delighted by and deeply grateful for the engagement of the members of the Folio Academy. They have undertaken their new remit to decide on the shortlist and category winners with great seriousness, and a number of them have also supported the prize financially in its time of need.
"Over the last nine weeks, we've celebrated three stunning shortlists--for fiction, poetry and non-fiction--each of which has reflected the exhilarating breadth and strength of the literary landscape in 2024. We are also grateful for the generosity of the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Bloomberg, the Ingram Book Group and Rathbones--as well as a number of kind individuals--who have stepped forward to support the prize."