LONDON - Maggie O’Farrell won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “Hamnet,” a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare’s often-maligned wife and lost son.

NEW YORK - Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet,” an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare’s son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.

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Hamnet also won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. Writers and Company 58:18 How the tragic story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning novel ...

Branagh takes on the role of Shakespeare himself as a man now obsessed with the death of his young son Hamnet and quarrelling with his two daughters, while the cast is filled with the likes of ...

In the book, Shakespeare is never named. When Hamnet tragically dies during the pandemic at the age of 11, his father writes a play titled Hamlet four years later.

LONDON — Maggie O’Farrell won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “Hamnet,” a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare’s often-maligned wife and lost son. O’Farrell’s novel beat ...