Announced on 6thJune, the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
As in previous years I give you the short and long lists for 2018 and all previous winners, because it’s so good to have 43 excellent books by women listed in one place!
Announced in April, the short list
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Announced in March, the longlist
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Elmet by Fiona Mozley (will be reviewed on Bookword on 19thJune)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Previous winners of the women’s fiction prize.
Naomi Alderman: The Power (2017)
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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