Women’s Prize for Fiction: 2020 longlist announced!

by |March 3, 2020
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The 2020 Women’s Prize judging panel (from left): Scarlett Curtis, Paula Hawkins, Martha Lane Fox, Melanie Eusebe and Viv Groskop.

The 2020 longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been revealed!

Established in 1996, The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the most prestigious yearly book award honouring women’s fiction in the United Kingdom, and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze statuette known as the ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven.

The Women’s Prize for Fiction nominees and overall winner are decided on by a panel of judges, which this year includes Martha Lane Fox, Melanie Eusebe, Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train), Viv Groskop (How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking) and Scarlett Curtis (Feminists Don’t Wear Pink).

Panel Chair Martha Lane Fox said:

“Ahead of the longlist meeting I was anxious that the negotiations between judges might be as arduous as Brexit, but it was an absolute delight to pick our final 16 books. Entries for the Prize’s 25th year have been spectacular and we revelled in the variety, depth, humanity and joy of the writing – we hope everyone else will too.”

The shortlist will be announced on the 22nd of April, and the winner on the 3rd of June.

Scroll down to see the 2020 longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction!


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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Dominicana by Angie Cruz

Actress by Anne Enright

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Girl by Edna O’Brien

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Weather by Jenny Offill

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson


Find out more about the Women’s Prize for Fiction here

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