Trinity graduate Virginia Evans wins Women’s Prize for her debut novel

Virginia Evans has won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 for her novel The Correspondent

A Trinity College Dublin graduate has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for the novel she wrote after attending the Irish university.

Virginia Evans attended Trinity on an MFA for creative writing when she was 32 and unpublished. Evans will receive a £30,000 prize (€34k) and a statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the late artist Grizel Niven, for her novel The Correspondent.