diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/fanficfare/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/fanficfare/default.nix
index 9e273d3c69b7..37447d0fb2ae 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/fanficfare/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/fanficfare/default.nix
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, python27Packages }:
 
 python27Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-  version = "2.9.0";
+  version = "2.16.0";
   name = "fanficfare-${version}";
   nameprefix = "";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/archive/v${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "781e9095d8152345a6106135e87c46eb306ff234b847de5073faca2f78544398";
+    sha256 = "0c31z7w4b3wz5nahsmnfhvp3srprfsqbp3zyngw4cqw3dm17kvvi";
   };
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python27Packages; [ beautifulsoup4 chardet html5lib html2text ];