The longlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced a few weeks back. This year’s longlist honors both new and well-established writers and a range of genres and themes, from family to rural poverty and isolation. The novels also range from different global settings, from South London to Deep South, from Ghana to Hong Kong,
Here are the books listed:
How the One Armed Woman Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones Publisher : Little, Brown and Company
- Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
- Summer by Ali Smith
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
- Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
- Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
- Because of You by Dawn French
- Consent by Annabel Lyon
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
- The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
The judging panel will now bring these 16 books down to a shortlist of just 6 novels, announced on April 28th. The 26th winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 7th July.
