Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize-winning “Girl, Woman, Other” and Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, “The Mirror & the Light,” are among the novels shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. According to the BBC, Angie Cruz (“Dominicana”), Maggie O’Farrell (“Hamnet”), Natalie Haynes (“A Thousand Ships”), and Jenny Offill (“Weather”) are also up for the £30,000 honor (about $37,000 USD).

The winner will be announced at a London ceremony on September 9. The event was originally scheduled for June 3 but was postponed due to the coronavirus.

“We are all living in challenging, sad, and complex times,” said Martha Lane Fox, chair of the prize’s judging panel, “so incredible stories provide hope, a moment of escape, and a point of connection now more than ever.”

“Girl, Woman, Other,” which has been optioned by Potboiler Television, is a sweeping story of modern Britain, told primarily by black women characters. “The Mirror & the Light” centers on the final years of Henry VIII’s close advisor, Thomas Cromwell. It’s the sequel to 2009’s “Wolf Hall” and 2012’s “Bring Up the Bodies,” which both served as the source material for a play and miniseries entitled “Wolf Hall.”

“Dominicana” sees its 15-year-old protagonist, Ana, marrying a man twice her age so her family can immigrate to the U.S. “A Thousand Ships” is a retelling of the Trojan war from an all-female perspective, while “Hamnet” is a fictional account of the life of Shakespeare’s only son. “Weather” is a family drama that centers climate change-related anxiety.

Formerly called the Orange Prize and Baileys Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction honors a book written in the English language by a woman and published in the UK. Previous recipients include Zadie Smith (“On Beauty”), Eimear McBride (“A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing”), Ali Smith (“How to Be Both”), and Andrea Levy (“Small Island”).