Celebrating excellence, originality, and accessibility in writing by ladies in English from internationally and now in its 25th yr, the Girls’s Prize for Fiction has introduced its 2020 longlist. The sixteen finalists embrace Booker Prize co-winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Lady, Girl, Different and a spread of books from well-established authors like Jacqueline Woodson and Hilary Mantel to notable debuts like Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. The shortlist shall be introduced on April 22nd and the winner shall be introduced on June third.
Chair of the judges, Martha Lane Fox commented on the checklist, “Forward of the longlist assembly I used to be anxious that the negotiations between judges is perhaps as arduous as Brexit, nevertheless it was an absolute delight to choose our remaining 16 books. Entries for the Prize’s 25th yr have been spectacular and we reveled within the selection, depth, humanity and pleasure of the writing–we hope everybody else will too.”
We’re delighted to disclose this yr’s #WomensPrize longlist ?
Congratulations to our sixteen sensible longlisted authors. Uncover them right here: https://t.co/6w8na8znoz pic.twitter.com/AgSYHAoQpL
— Girls’s Prize (@WomensPrize) March three, 2020
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The 2020 judging panel contains chair Martha Lane Fox; author and activist Scarlett Curtis; author and activist, Melanie Eusebe; co-founder of the Black British Enterprise Awards, creator, and comic Viv Groskop; and Paula Hawkins, worldwide bestselling creator of The Lady on the Prepare.
2020 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLIST
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Fleishman is in Bother by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Actress by Anne Enright
Lady, Girl, Different by Bernardine Evaristo
Nightingale Level by Luan Goldie
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
The Most Enjoyable We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Mirror and the Mild by Hilary Mantel
Lady by Edna O’ Brien
Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell
Climate by Jenny Offill
The Dutch Home by Ann Patchett
Crimson on the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Try final yr’s nominees:
Girls’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Introduced
Asserting the 2019 Girls’s Prize for Fiction Longlist
