I love listing awards that focus on women cause we always get exposed to so many women we otherwise would probably never hear of. Here’s this year’s longlist for the Orange Women’s Fiction Prize. Clearly you can tell from the list there are some women you’ve heard of, but most are new names, at least to me.
Toni Morrison- A Mercy
Deirdre Madden – Molly Fox’s Birthday
Marilynne Robinson- Home
Kamila Shamsie- Burnt Shadows
Gaynor Arnold- Girl in a Blue Dress
Debra Adelaide- The Household Guide to Dying
Lissa Evans- Their Finest Hour and a Half
Bernadine Evaristo- Blonde Roots
Ellen Feldman- Scottsboro
Laura Fish- Strange Music
VV Ganeshananthan- Love Marriage
Allegra Goodman- Intuition
Samantha Harvey- The Wilderness
Samantha Hunt- The Invention of Everything Else
Michelle de Kretser- The Lost Dog
Gina Ochsner- The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Preeta Samarasan- Evening is the Whole Day
Curtis Sittenfeld- American Wife
Miriam Toews- The Flying Troutmans
Ann Weisgarber- The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
I’ve got a lot of reading to do. The shortlist of six will be named in April and the winner will be announced in June.
American Authors Dominate Orange Fiction Longlist (The Guardian)
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