The Longlist of 2022 Women's Prize For Fiction Announced

Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 has announced its longlist! It includes sixteen incredible books of both debut and acclaimed writers.

According to the Chair of judges and author Mary Ann Sieghart, Choosing just 16 novels from 175 submissions was a marathon task. After a lively and passionate discussion, my fellow judges were delighted to find that our 16 favourite novels were incredibly diverse, written by women of all ages from all over the world, covering different genres, and from publishers large and small. We are confident that this wonderful, eclectic and inspiring longlist will offer something to entrance every reader, both male and female.

Among those included in the longlist, there are five British authors, six Americans, two New Zealanders, one Turkish-British, one American-Canadian, and one Trinidadian writer:

• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

• Careless by Kirsty Capes

• Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé

• Flamingo by Rachel Elliott

• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

• Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey

• Salt Lick by Lulu Allison

• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

• The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini

• The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

• This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

Shortlisted six novels will be announced on April 27 and the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction honored on June 15.

Last year the Prize was handed to Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.

Source: www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk