“The British Pakistani author’s seventh novel” – which edged out Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, winner of the US National Book Award – “reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a British Muslim family’s connection to Islamic State … The [£30,000] annual award, which has been won by authors including Lionel Shriver, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Naomi Alderman in the last two decades, was previously known as the Orange prize and the Baileys prize.”