Here’s the shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize.
The Center for Fiction has announced the shortlist for its 2022 First Novel Prize, which honors “the best debut fiction of the year” with a $15,000 prize.
The seven books on the list were selected by judges Matt Bell, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Megha Majumdar, Rebecca Makkai, and Chigozie Obioma from a longlist of 24 debut novels. Each shortlisted author will receive $1,000 and the winner will be announced at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit on December 6.
Here is the shortlist:
Daphne Palasi Andreades, Brown Girls
(Penguin Random House / Random House)
Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers
(Simon & Schuster)
Isabel Kaplan, NSFW
(Macmillan / Henry Holt and Company)
Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
(Graywolf Press)
Alyssa Songsiridej, Little Rabbit
(Bloomsbury Publishing)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Big Girl
(W. W. Norton & Company / Liveright)
Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Congratulations to the authors!
