The longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced. The £30,000 prize, formerly sponsored by Orange, is this year being funded by a group of individual donors including Cherie Blair and Martha Lane Fox although founder Kate Mosse has said a permanent sponsor is being sought for 2014 onwards. The long list of 20 women writers is as follows:
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)
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 shortlist will be announced on 16th April 2013 and the awards ceremony will be held on 5th June.
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