The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, today announces the 2013 longlist. Now in its eighteenth year – and known from 1996 to 2012 as the Orange Prize for Fiction – the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world.
The longlisted titles are:
* Kitty Aldridge A Trick I Learned From Dead Men (Jonathan Cape)
* Kate Atkinson Life After Life (Doubleday)
* Ros Barber The Marlowe Papers (Sceptre)
* Shani Boianjiu The People of Forever are Not Afraid (Hogarth)
* Gillian Flynn Gone Girl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
* Sheila Heti How Should A Person Be? (Harvill Secker)
* A M Homes May We Be Forgiven (Granta)
* Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behaviour (Faber Books)
* Deborah Copaken Kogan The Red Book (Virago)
* Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
* Bonnie Nadzam Lamb (Hutchinson)
* Emily Perkins The Forrests (Bloomsbury Circus)
* Michèle Roberts Ignorance (Bloomsbury)
* Francesca Segal The Innocents (Chatto & Windus)
* Maria Semple Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
* Elif Shafak Honour (Viking)
* Zadie Smith NW (Hamish Hamilton)
* M L Stedman The Light Between Oceans (Doubleday)
* Carrie Tiffany Mateship with Birds (Picador)
* G Willow Wilson Alif the Unseen (Corvus Books)
The judges for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction are:
* Miranda Richardson, (Chair), Actor
* Razia Iqbal, BBC Broadcaster and Journalist
* Rachel Johnson, Author, Editor and Journalist
* JoJo Moyes, Author
* Natasha Walter, Feminist Writer and Human Rights Activist
Set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote international fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible, the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013 is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman. Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible.
The shortlist will be announced on 16 April and the winner, who will receive a cheque for £30,000, will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on 5 June.
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