Arundhati Roy’s memoir ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ shortlisted for 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
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The six-book shortlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was announced yesterday. Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, about her stormy relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, is in the running to win this year’s prize.
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The winner will be announced on June 11, and the winning author will receive £30,000 and a limited-edition artwork known as the “Charlotte” sculpted by Ann Christopher.
This year’s Chair of Judges, Thangam Debbonaire, CEO of UK Opera Association, cultural strategist and politician, is joined by Roma Agrawal, engineer, author and broadcaster, Nicola Elliott, founder of NEOM Wellbeing, Nina Stibbe, novelist and memoirist, and Nicola Williams, Crown Court judge and thriller author.
Debbonaire said about the shortlist, “[…] These books are an urgent antidote to mis- and dis-information, written with high standards of scholarship. They offer rich and original insights in what often feels like a fragmented and uncertain world.”
The full list in alphabetical order by author surname is:
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan, Lyse Doucet, Penguin Random House UK
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health, Daisy Fancourt, Penguin Random House UK
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John, Judith Mackrell, Pan Macmillan
Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War, Jane Rogoyska, Penguin Random...