If you’ve been wondering what your next read should be, or perhaps you’re planning your summer reading list, then the 2021 Women’s Prize Shortlist has you covered.
The six novels up for the award this year are certainly a mixed bag, meaning there’s something for every bookworm. The Women’s Prize was first introduced in 1996 to counter the Booker Prize of 1991 when no female authors made the shortlist.
This year is the first since 2005 that the prize has shortlisted only first-time nominees and the winner, who stands to receive €35,000, will be announced on July 7.
These six novels stand to be the biggest books of the summer, so we suggest you get reading!
La mitad evanescente , la novela que se ha convertido en el libro del movimiento Black Lives Matter
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HBO s Vanishing Half Taps Aziza Barnes, Jeremy O. Harris as Writers
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The duo will also executive produce alongside Issa Rae and Stephanie Allain.
HBO has found the writers for its potential series based on Brit Bennett s novel
The Vanishing Half.
Aziza Barnes and Jeremy O. Harris will adapt the best seller and serve as executive producers of the project. They ll also serve as executive producers;
Insecure star and co-creator Issa Rae and Oscars producer Stephanie Allain are also EPs.
The Vanishing Half, which became an instant best seller upon its publication in June 2020, centers on identical twin sisters who run away from their small, southern Black community at age 16. As adults, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different, it’s everything: their families, their communities, the essence of who they are. Ten years later, they are living completely separate lives, far from the close-knit sisters they o
Jeremy O. Harris and Aziza Barnes
Playwrights Jeremy O. Harris (2020 Tony nominee for
BLKS) have been tapped to adapt Brit Bennett s
The Vanishing Half for HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The two writers will also executive produce the new series based on the best-selling novel along with writer Bennett, Issa Rae (
Insecure), Academy Awards producer Stephanie Allain and Gabrielle Ebron for Homegrown Pictures; and Montrel McKay and Sara Rastogi for Hoorae.
Published in 2020,
The Vanishing Half concerns identical twins who leave their southern Black community as teenagers. A decade later, the lives of the two sisters, separated by miles and lies, are completely different, yet their fates remain intertwined.
Did you catch Editor, Angela and Production Ed, Judey, discussing Burns, his poetry and his legacy on Facebook Live? It makes interesting listening – did you know the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum is the second-most-visited writer’s museum in the UK (after Shakespeare’s)?
One of his poems mentioned in the broadcast is “To A Louse”, which features the lines:
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
And it occurred to me that’s what’s at the heart of “The Vanishing Half”, by Brit Bennett how others see us, and also how we see ourselves.
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