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Kent shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

8 April 2014   Books+Publishing
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Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Burial Rites (Picador).

The full shortlist was announced in the UK on 8 April.

The shortlisted titles are:

  • Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate)
  • Burial Rites (Hannah Kent, Picador)
  • The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury)
  • The Undertaking (Audrey Magee, A&U)
  • A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Eimear McBride, Text)
  • The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, Abacus).

 

The shortlisted titles were chosen from 20 longlisted titles that included New Zealand author Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (Granta) and UK-based Australian author Evie Wylde’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage).

Helen Fraser, the chair of judges, said the shortlist was ‘brilliant, original and gripping’.

The winner of the £30,000 (approximately A$54,000) prize will be announced in London on 4 June 2014.

 

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