Salma El-Wardany
Salma El-Wardany is the author of These Impossible Things, a presenter, poet, speaker and judge for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Interviews with Salma El-Wardany
The Best New Novels: The 2026 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Salma El-Wardany
The Women’s Prize was set up to highlight the very best of women’s writing, whatever their subject matter. We spoke to Salma El-Wardany, one of this year’s judges, about this year’s winner—Virginia Evan’s heartwarming epistolary novel The Correspondent—plus the five books that made it onto their fiction shortlist, all skillfully told novels that should appeal to a wide audience.
