2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced
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Celebrating excellence, originality, and accessibility in writing by women in English from across the world and now in its 25th year, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2020 longlist. The sixteen finalists include Booker Prize co-winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and a range of books from well-established authors like Jacqueline Woodson and Hilary Mantel to notable debuts like Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. The shortlist will be announced on April 22nd and the winner will be announced on June 3rd.
Chair of the judges, Martha Lane Fox commented on the list, “Ahead of the longlist meeting I was anxious that the negotiations between judges might be as arduous as Brexit, but it was an absolute delight to pick our final 16 books. Entries for the Prize’s 25th year have been spectacular and we reveled in the variety, depth, humanity and joy of the writing–we hope everyone else will too.”
Check out last year’s nominees: Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced Announcing the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
The 2020 judging panel includes chair Martha Lane Fox; writer and activist Scarlett Curtis; writer and activist, Melanie Eusebe; co-founder of the Black British Business Awards, author, and comedian Viv Groskop; and Paula Hawkins, international bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.We're delighted to reveal this year's #WomensPrize longlist 🙌
— Women's Prize (@WomensPrize) March 3, 2020
Congratulations to our sixteen brilliant longlisted authors. Discover them here: https://t.co/6w8na8znoz pic.twitter.com/AgSYHAoQpL
2020 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLIST
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Dominicana by Angie Cruz Actress by Anne Enright Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Girl by Edna O’ Brien Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell Weather by Jenny Offill The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Red at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonCheck out last year’s nominees: Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced Announcing the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
