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Last year, Barbara Kingsolver became the first person to win the award twice with her novel Demon Copperhead. One of 2024’s shortlisted authors, Kate Grenville, previously won the Prize (then ...
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 both prizes will be announced on June 13.
These consisted of The Guardian's Top Fiction of 2021, [19] Publisher Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2021, [20] The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction of 2021 [21] and The Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021. [22] It also made an appearance on The Atlantic's 20 Best Books of 2021. [23]
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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)
With the 2024 win, the work became the first novel set in space to win the prestigious award. [18] Sara Collins, who was on the judging panel for the award, stated that that the book transported her from the many crises on Earth and re-framed those crises, and humanity, in a new relief. Collins stated the judging panel unanimously chose the ...