Objavljen je širi izbor na nagradu Women’s prize for fiction! U ovogodišnjem žiriju bili su Julia Gillard, kao predsjednica žirija, zatim Mona Arshi, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd te Annie Macmanus.
Šesnaest djela u utrci za nagradu su sljedeća:
- Gloria Don’t Speak, Lucy Apps (Weatherglass Books)
- Paradiso 17, Hannah Lillith Assadi (4th Estate, HarperCollins Publishers UK)
- Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic Books)
- Flashlight, Susan Choi (Jonathan Cape, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)
- Dominion, Addie E. Citchens (Europa Editions UK)
- The Benefactors, Wendy Erskine (Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton, Hachette UK)
- The Correspondent, Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, Penguin Random House UK)
- The Mercy Step, Marcia Hutchinson (Cassava Republic Press)
- The Others, Sheena Kalayil (Fly on the Wall Press)
- Kingfisher, Rozie Kelly (Saraband)
- Heart the Lover, Lily King (Canongate)
- Audition, Katie Kitamura (Fern Press, Vintage, Penguin Random House UK)
- A Guardian and a Thief, Megha Majumdar (Scribner, Simon & Schuster UK)
- Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy (Canongate)
- The Best of Everything, Kit de Waal (Tinder Press, Headline Publishing Group, Hachette UK)
- A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, Alice Evelyn Yang (Dead Ink)
Claire Shanahan, izvršna direktorica Women’s Prize Trusta, izjavila je: „Neizmjerno smo ponosni na ovogodišnju dugu listu i upućujem naše čestitke ovim 16 iznimnim autoricama te zahvalnost sucima.”
Uži izbor sastojat će se od šest djela, a njih ćemo saznati 16. travnja dok će pobjednica biti proglašena 11. lipnja.
Izvor: womensprize.com.
