The winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize will be announced on July 7.
Novels that explore forgotten and neglected communities in Britain, the U.S. and the Caribbean were named finalists on Wednesday for the 30,000 pound ($42,000) Women’s Prize for fiction.
The six-book shortlist includes American author Brit Bennett’s tale of twins who take different paths,
The Vanishing Half, U.S. writer Patricia Lockwood’s social media satire
No One is Talking About This and
Transcendent Kingdom, a story of African immigrants in Alabama by Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi.
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