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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