Two Irish authors have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, along with six British and five American authors, one Canadian, one Barbadian and one Ghanaian / American. The chair of this year’s judges is 2019 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, whose fellow judges are Elizabeth Day; Vick Hope; Nesrine Malik; and Sarah-Jane Mee. “The Women’s Prize judges have some serious form in picking out good books, so I’m delighted they’ve chosen to include mine on this year’s longlist. Novels featuring male protagonists have won the Women’s Prize before.”The shortlist of six books will be announced on April 28th and the winner of the £30,000 prize will be revealed on July 7th. I was aware that should I win a major prize – the Booker, Costa or Women’s Prize – it would certainly affect my career for the better, it would bring my book to a wider readership.

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2021 18:00 UTC