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Each book is gloriously compelling and inventive and lingers in the heart and mind long after the final page.” Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 judges: Indira Varma, Anna Whitehouse, Monica Ali ...
The shortlist of six finalists was announced on 16 September 2024, with five of the six books being by female authors, the highest number of women shortlisted in the 55-year history of the prize. [7] [8] Harvey had previously been nominated for a Booker Prize when her 2009 debut novel The Wilderness was longlisted for the award. [8]
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
In May 2014, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction launched the #ThisBook campaign to find out which books, written by women, have had the biggest impact on readers. [21] Nineteen "inspirational women" were chosen to launch the campaign and then thousands of people from the "general public" submitted their ideas via Twitter . [ 22 ]
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 in prize money. See the full shortlist below James by Percival Everett (Mantel)
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Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
The winner of the prestigious prize will be announced in June.