Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, published as Hamnet & Judith in Canada, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.
The Irish-British author's novel is an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague.
Hamnet, an unfortunately well-timed story for the current pandemic, explores the impact of the boy's illness and death on his family. He was Shakespeare's only son, and scholars have long speculated about his influence — if any — on Hamlet, which Shakespeare worked on in the years following Hamnet's death.
Hamnet also won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.
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