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.
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The Women s Prize for Fiction has made history by including a trans woman in its 2021 longlist.
Torrey Peters has been listed for her debut novel Detransition, Baby, months after organisers faced fierce criticism for announcing entries will be accepted from anyone legally defined as a woman.
Detransition, Baby follows trans women Reese and Amy as they attempt to navigate forming an unconventional family when Amy de-transitions to become Ames and fathers a child from an affair with his boss Katrina.
In October, organisers of the prestigious award were accused of putting women s rights last as they extended the award to all women .