Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 shortlist announced

In the UK, the shortlist for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. Now in its 26th year, the £30,000 (A$53,600) prize is presented annually to the best novel written in English by a woman.

The shortlisted novels are:

• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (Cherie Jones, Tinder Press)
• No One is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, Bloomsbury)
• Piranesi (Susanna Clarke, Bloomsbury)
• The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett, Little, Brown)
• Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi, Viking)
• Unsettled Ground (Claire Fuller, Fig Tree).

The shortlist features two British writers, two American, one Ghanaian-American, and one Barbadian, chosen from a longlist of 16 announced in March. The winner will be announced on 7 July.

UK author Maggie O’Farrell won last year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Hamnet (Tinder Press).

For more information about the prize and this year’s shortlisted titles, see the website.

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