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Women's Prize for Fiction longlist - in pictures

 

Wednesday 13 March 2013 01:01 GMT
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, today announces the 2013 longlist. Now in its eighteenth year - and known from 1996 to 2012 as the Orange Prize for Fiction - the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world.

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Women's Prize for Fiction longlist in full:

Kitty Aldridge

A Trick I Learned From Dead Men

Jonathan Cape

British

3 Novel

Kate Atkinson

Life After Life

Doubleday

British

3 Novel

Ros Barber

The Marlowe Papers

Sceptre

British

1 Novel

Shani Boianjiu

The People of Forever are Not Afraid

Hogarth

Israeli

1 Novel

Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

American

  3 Novel

Sheila Heti

How Should A Person Be?

Harvill Secker

Canadian

2 Novel

A.M Homes

May We Be Forgiven

Granta

American

6  Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behaviour

Faber & Faber

American

8 Novel

Deborah Copaken Kogan

The Red Book

Virago

American

2 Novel

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Fourth Estate

British

10 Novel

Bonnie Nadzam

Lamb

Hutchinson

American

1 Novel

Emily Perkins

The Forrests

Bloomsbury Circus

New Zealand

  4 Novel

Michèle Roberts

Ignorance

Bloomsbury

British

13 Novel

Francesca Segal

The Innocents

Chatto & Windus

British

1 Novel

Maria Semple

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

American

2 Novel

Elif Shafak

Honour

Viking

Turkish

7 Novel

Zadie Smith

NW

Hamish Hamilton

British

4 Novel

M.L. Stedman

The Light Between Oceans

Doubleday

British/Australian

1 Novel

Carrie Tiffany

Mateship with Birds

Picador

Australian

2  Novel

G. Willow Wilson

Alif the Unseen

Corvus Books

American

1 Novel

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