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    Here’s the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

    Katie Yee
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    April 21, 2020, 2:34pm

    The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) shortlist has just been announced with a special video announcement on Twitter. The Women’s Prize is presented annually to a female author for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom the previous year. The winning writer, who will be announced in September, will receive a whopping £30,000.

    Congratulations to the finalists!

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    2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist

    Angie Cruz, Dominicana

    Angie Cruz, Dominicana

     

    Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

     

    Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

     

    Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & The Light

    Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

     

    Hamnet

    Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

     

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

    Jenny Offill, Weather

     

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