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The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden wins the 2025 Women’s prize – an expertly woven tale of personal crises and national horror

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par Manjeet Ridon, Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden has won the 2025 Women’s prize. It revisits a dark, under-explored chapter of Dutch history. It asks what happened to all the possessions that Jews who were forced to flee or were taken to camps during the second world war had to leave behind.

The trauma of this history hangs over the novel, a haunting buzz beneath this tale of a woman slowly losing control over her small…

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