Susanna Clarke, Brit Bennett and Cherie Jones are among the novelists shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Expand Close (Women’s Prize for Fiction/Sarah Lee/PA) / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp (Women’s Prize for Fiction/Sarah Lee/PA)Alongside Booker Prize winner and chair of judges Bernardine Evaristo, the judging panel also includes podcaster and journalist Elizabeth Day, radio host Vick Hope, print columnist Nesrine Malik and presenter Sarah-Jane Mee. Expand Close (Women’s Prize for Fiction/Cherie Jones/PA) / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp (Women’s Prize for Fiction/Cherie Jones/PA)Evaristo stressed the continued importance of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She told the PA news agency: “I think the situation for women’s fiction has improved in the last 26 years. “It still remains a really important prize for readers to focus on the best and most diverse of women’s fiction out there.

Source: Irish Independent April 28, 2021 17:48 UTC