Women’s Prize 2023 shortlist announced
Thursday, 27 April 2023 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlist for the 2023 International Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced.
The six titles shortlisted for the award are:
- Black Butterflies (Priscilla Morris, Duckworth Books)
- Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver, Faber)
- Fire Rush (Jacqueline Crooks, Jonathan Cape)
- Pod (Laline Paull, Little Brown)
- The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O’Farrell, Headline)
- Trespasses (Louise Kennedy, Bloomsbury).
The shortlist was selected from a longlist of 16 by judges broadcaster and writer Louise Minchin (chair); novelist Rachel Joyce; journalist, podcaster and writer Bella Mackie; novelist and short story writer Irenosen Okojie; and MP Tulip Siddiq.
The winner will be announced on 14 June. Last year’s winner was Ruth Ozeki for her fourth novel The Book of Form and Emptiness (Text).
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