2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

The 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction was awarded on June 11, 2026, at the Women's Prize Trust's summer celebration in Bedford Square Gardens, London. The winner was The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet, a people's history of Afghanistan. Six books made the shortlist, which was announced on March 25. The other shortlisted titles were Daisy Fancourt's Art Cure, on the science of how the arts affect health; Judith Mackrell's Artists, Siblings, Visionaries, about Gwen and Augustus John; Jane Rogoyska's Hotel Exile, set in wartime Paris; Arundhati Roy's memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me; and Ece Temelkuran's Nation of Strangers, on rebuilding a sense of home.