The Windham-Campbell Prizes have announced the eight winners of their 2025 awards, with Sigrid Nunez and Anne Enright among the writers receiving $175,000 grants that honor outstanding literary achievement.
Nunez and Enright were the two fiction writers to win the prizes. Nunez is the author of novels including The Last of Her Kind and What Are You Going Through; her National Book Award winner, The Friend, was adapted into a film set for theatrical release Friday. Enright’s novels include What Are You Like?, The Wig My Father Wore, and the Booker Prize–winning The Gathering.
The nonfiction winners were Patricia J. Williams, whose books include The Rooster’s Egg and Seeing a Color-Blind Future, and Rana Dasgupta, the author of Capital and the forthcoming After Nations.
Winning the drama prizes were Roy Williams (The No Boys Cricket Club, Sucker Punch) and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini (Muscovado, Sleepova). The two honored poets were Anthony V. Capildeo (No Traveller Returns, A Happiness) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food).
The Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, were first awarded in 2013. Previous recipients include Teju Cole, Hilton Als, Cathy Park Hong, and Hanif Abdurraqib.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
