Eight international writers receive the 2025 Windham Campbell Prizes
Since 2013, the Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been awarded to more than 100 English-language writers from around the world. Established through a gift from the writer Donald Windham, in memory of his life partner, actor and writer Sandy Campbell, the prize is one of the largest and most prestigious literary awards in the world.
This year’s prizewinners are fiction writers Anne Enright (Ireland) and Sigrid Nunez (United States); poets Anthony V. Capildeo (Trinidad and Tobago/Scotland) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (United States); nonfiction writers Rana Dasgupta (United Kingdom) and Patricia J. Williams (United States); and playwrights Matilda Feyisayo Ibini (United Kingdom) and Roy Williams (United Kingdom).
The prize recipients will be on Yale’s campus from Sept. 16 to Sept. 19 for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival to share their work, engage in conversation, and celebrate reading and writing with members of the Yale and New Haven communities. All events are free and open to the public. A full schedule of events will be available at windhamcampbell.org in mid-August.
Read about each of the 2025 prize recipients and all past prizewinners. Read the winners’ reactions in Yale News.
The Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell Papers, held at Beinecke Library, contain more than 70 boxes of writings, correspondence, photographs, artwork, and other papers by or relating to Windham and Campbell.
