Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-fiction.

The £30,000 ($50,900 CAD) award was established by the Women’s Prize Trust in 2023 to honour exceptional nonfiction written by women. Books written by women and published in the U.K. are eligible.

Klein was named the winner at a ceremony in London on June 13 for Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Knopf Canada/Penguin Books in the U.K.). It was one of six books shortlisted for the prize.

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges for the nonfiction prize, called Doppelganger “a courageous, humane, and optimistic call-to-arms that moves us beyond black and white, beyond Right and Left, inviting us instead to embrace the spaces in between.”

In accepting the award, Klein thanked the Women’s Prize Trust, her fellow shortlisted authors, and her family. “Thank you for welcoming me into this extraordinary literary sisterhood,” Klein said. “I can’t quite believe that I get to be part of inaugurating this nonfiction prize. It truly is my honour.”

American writer V.V. Ganeshananthan was named the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Brotherless Night. Ganeshananthan’s novel won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction earlier this spring.