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Local authors longlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

7 March 2014   Books+Publishing
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Books by Australian authors Hannah Kent and Evie Wyld and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton are among the titles longlisted for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK.

Kent’s novel Burial Rites (Picador), Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage) and Catton’s The Luminaries (Granta) are among 20 books on this year’s longlist, which also includes high-profile names such as Margaret Atwood (Maddaddam, Bloomsbury) and Elizabeth Gilbert (The Signature of All Things, Bloomsbury). As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Kent and Wyld’s novels are also in the running for this year’s Stella Prize.

The full longlist is:

  • Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate)
  • Maddaddam (Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury)
  • The Dogs of Littlefield (Suzanne Berne, Fig Tree)
  • The Shadow of the Crescent Moon (Fatima Bhutto, Viking)
  • The Bear (Claire Cameron, Harvill Secker)
  • Eleven Days (Lea Carpenter, Hodder Christian Books)
  • The Stangler Vine (M J Carter, Fig Tree)
  • The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Granta)
  • Reasons She Goes to the Woods (Deborah Key Davies, Oneworld)
  • The Signature of All Things (Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury)
  • Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador)
  • The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, Harvill Secker)
  • The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury)
  • The Undertaking (Audrey Magee, A&U)
  • A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (Eimear McBride, Text)
  • Almost English (Charlotte Mendelson, Pan Macmillan)
  • Still Life with Bread Crumbs (Anna Quindlen, Hutchinson)
  • The Burgess Boys (Elizabeth Strout, S&S)
  • The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, Little, Brown)
  • All the Birds, Singing (Evie Wyld, Vintage).

 

A shortlist of six books will be announced on 7 April, ahead of the winner’s announcement on 4 June.

This is the first year that Baileys has sponsored the award, which was previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction. The £30,000 (A$55,286) prize was established in 1996 and is presented annually to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman. American author A M Homes won last year’s award for May We Be Forgiven (Granta).

For more information about the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, visit the website here.

 

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