transcendent kingdom shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction 2021

transcendent kingdom shortlisted for the women

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. The 25th winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 7th July. She'll be joined by Vick Hope, TV and radio presenter, journalist and writer Elizabeth Day, podcaster, author and journalist Nesrine Malik, print columnist and writer and Sarah-Jane Mee, news presenter and broadcaster.

Her novel Girl, Woman, Other was one of six reads 2020's panel shortlisted. Once again there are five judges to impress, one of whom was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction.īernardine Evaristo, award-winning novelist, will chair the judging panel. How is the Women's Prize for Fiction judged? You can find all the previous winners here. Previous winners include Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver and, last year's winning author, Maggie O’Farrell. The winner receives £30,000 and and a limited edition bronze statue known as a ‘Bessie’, created by the artist Grizel Niven. The Women's Prize for Fiction is an annual literary award which celebrates fiction from women writing in English around the world, regardless of their age, race, nationality or background. We feel passionate about them, and we hope readers do too.' Fiction by women defies easy categorisation or stereotyping, and all of these novels grapple with society’s big issues expressed through thrilling storytelling. 'These novels will take the reader from a rural Britain left behind to the underbelly of a community in Barbados from inside the hectic performance of social media to inside a family beset by addiction and oppression from a tale of racial hierarchy in America to a mind-expanding tale of altered perceptions. However, with this shortlist, we are excited to present a gloriously varied and thematically rich exploration of women’s fiction at its finest. Sadly, we had to lose so many exceptional books that we loved. The shortlist for the 2021 prize has just been announced, gifting us a ready-made reading list for the months ahead.Ĭhair of judges, author Bernardine Evaristo, said: 'Coming up with a longlist of sixteen books for this prize was relatively easy compared to whittling the selection down to six novels, which by necessity demands more consensus. The Women's Prize for Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary accolades – and an annual book award favourite of ours, too, for putting brilliant reads from new and established authors on our radar.

Transcendent kingdom shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction 2021