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    Here is the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.

    Dan Sheehan

    March 2, 2020, 8:15pm

    Across the pond in foggy London town the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has just been announced. This year’s list of nominees is particularly star-studded, and includes such luminaries as Edna O’Brien, Jenny Offil, Bernardine Evaristo, Jacqueline Woodson, and Hilary Mantel.

    Considered to be one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), is presented annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. The victorious writer receives a cool £30,000, along with a handsome bronze sculpture known as the Bessie. Previous winners include Zadie Smith, Marilynne Robinson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Téa Obreht, Ann Patchett, and Barbara Kingsolver.

    Here are the sixteen titles nominated for this year’s award:

     

    Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

    Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is In Trouble

    Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

    queenie

    Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

    Angie Cruz, Dominicana

    Dominicana by Angie Cruz

    Anne Enright, Actress

    Actress by Anne Enright

    Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

    Nightingale Point

    Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie

    A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

    How We Disappeared Jing-Jing Lee

    How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

    Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

    The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

    Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & The Light

    The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

    Girl Edna O'Brien

    Girl by Edna O’ Brien

    Hamnet

    Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell

    Jenny Offill, Weather; design by John Gall (Knopf, February 11)

    Weather by Jenny Offill

    The Dutch House

    The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

    Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

    Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

     

    A shortlist of six will be announced on April 22nd, with the overall winner being revealed on June 3rd.

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