McBride wins Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014

5 June 2014 Books+Publishing

Irish author Eimear McBride has won the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (Text). McBride’s book was chosen from a shortlist of six, which also included Australian author Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador); Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate); The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri, Bloomsbury); The Undertaking (Audrey Magee, A&U); and The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, Abacus). McBride was named the winner of the prize, which is worth £30,000 (A$54,147), at an event in London on 4 June. The judging panel included Helen Fraser, Caitlin Moran, Denise Mina, Mary Beard and Sophie Raworth. Fraser described the winning novel as: ‘An amazing and ambitious first novel that impressed the judges with its inventiveness and energy.’ As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the 20 longlisted titles included New Zealand author Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries (Granta) and Australian author Evie Wylde’s All the Birds, Singing (Vintage).

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