The shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced a few days ago.  This year’s shortlist is made up of authors who have never been nominated for the prize before , with authors such as Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood. The annual award that looks for an “outstanding, ambitious, original” novel by a woman features several stories about “lives you haven’t read about before”, said chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, the Booker prize-winning novelist.¹

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• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
• No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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The winner will be announced on Wednesday, July 7, where the female novelist will receive a cash prize of £30,000 award.

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¹Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees | Women’s prize for fiction | The Guardian