This year the winner of the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize is
The Power by Naomi Alderman
As in previous years I give you the short and long lists and all previous winners, because it’s so good to have 37 excellent books by women listed in one place!
And a special mention for Helen Dunmore, the first winner, who died on the 5th June 2017.
The short list (April 2017)
Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
First Love by Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
The long longlist, with links.
- Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀ (Canongate)
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (Viking)
- Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood” (Hogarth)
- Little Deaths by Emma Flint (Picador)
- The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (Serpent’s Tail)
- The Dark Circle by Linda Grant (Virago)
- The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride (Faber & Faber)
- Midwinter by Fiona Melrose (Corsair)
- The Sport of Kings by E. Morgan (4th Estate)
- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso (Chatto & Windus). Reviewed on Bookword here.
- The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill (riverrun)
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Serpent’s Tail).
Reviewed on Bookword here. - Barkskins by Annie Proulx (4th Estate)
- First Love by Gwendoline Riley (Granta)
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta)
- The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)
Previous winners of the women’s fiction prize.
Lisa McInerney: The Glorious Heresies (2016)
Ali Smith: How to be Both (2015)
Eimear McBride: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (2014)
A.M. Homes: May We Be Forgiven (2013)
Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles (2012)
Téa Obreht: The Tiger’s Wife (2011)
Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna (2010)
Marilynne Robinson: Home (2009)
Rose Tremain: The Road Home (2008)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun (2007)
Zadie Smith: On Beauty (2006)
Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005)
Andrea Levy: Small Island (2004)
Valerie Martin: Property (2003)
Ann Patchett: Bel Canto (2002)
Kate Grenville: The Idea of Perfection (2001)
Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times (2000)
Suzanne Berne: A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999)
Carol Shields: Larry’s Party (1998)
Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces (1997)
Helen Dunmore: A Spell of Winter (1996)
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