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Womenâs Prize for Fiction: Our top 5 picks from the longlist Looking for some lockdown reading inspiration? You’re in luck; the Women’s Prize for Fiction has just revealed this year’s longlist. The judging panel includes Booker Prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo, journalist Nesrine Malik and Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail. Evaristo said: “We’re confident that we have chosen 16 standout novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations. These novels fascinated, moved, inspired and challenged us and we’re excited at announcing their inclusion on the Women’s Prize longlist.”
With six nationalities represented and six debuts this year, the Women’s Prize for Fiction plans a July winner’s announcement after a shortlist in April.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s big longlist comprises 16 titles. Image: Women’s Prize
An Award Program in Its 26th Year
Overnight in London, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2021 longlist with 16 titles to be winnowed down to six for the shortlist, to be announced April 28. The winner is expected to be named this year on July 7.
The purse for that winner will be worth £30,000 (US$41,926) and is endowed by an anonymous donor. The winner also traditionally receives the limited edition “Bessie” figurine made and donated by artist Grizel Niven.
There are currently 16 writers on the longlist. A shortlist of six will be announced in April and the panel will reveal the winner in July.
Bernadine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other, announced the longlist earlier this week. The Booker Prize winner will also chair the judging.
The overall winner will receive £30,000 as well as a bronze figurine commemorating the achievement.
The Women s Prize for Fiction is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English and published in the UK.
A series of both prolific and emerging writers join Dolan and MacMahon on the list. Other nominees include Brit Bennet s The Vanishing Half, Avni Doshi s Burnt Sugar and Dawn French s Because of You.
“Sadly, we had to let some very deserving books go, but we’re confident that we have chosen 16 stand-out novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations. These novels fascinated, moved, inspired and challenged us.”
Alongside Evaristo, this year’s team of judges is made up of podcaster, author and journalist Elizabeth Day; radio presenter, journalist and writer Vick Hope; print columnist and writer Nesrine Malik; and news presenter and broadcaster Sarah-Jane Mee.
Judges will now whittle the nominees down to a final shortlist of six books, to be announced on Wednesday, April 7, before the winner is revealed at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, July 7.