The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Founded in 1996, the Prize was set up to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world.
The Prize, formerly know as the ‘Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction’, has bee rebranded for 2018 due to a new sponsorship model
The Longlist was announced on 8th March, International Women’s Day, a selection of 16 top titles.
The Shortlist was announced on 23rd April.
Find the selection across Hampshire Libraries in print, to download and even to listen to:
The 2018 Shortlisted books are as follows:
Elif Batuman, The Idiot
Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Jessie Greengrass, Sight
Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Coming soon, reserve now!)
