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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.