Arundhati Roy, Sarah Perry and Lea Ypi are among the writers longlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction.
Sixteen authors are in contention to win the £30,000 award, launched in 2024 to address the persistent gender imbalance in UK nonfiction prize winners.
The 2026 longlist spans politics, memoir, science, art, history and biography, and includes seven debut authors. Chair of judges and Labour peer Thangam Debbonaire said the longlist was “hopeful”, and represented “women writing excellently on a wide range of subjects, each uncovering something new about our world”.
Among the best-known names on the list is the Booker prize-winning novelist and political activist Arundhati Roy, longlisted for her fi
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