#womens prize for fiction

[readyforevolution]

Chimamanda Adichie an igbo Biafran is arguably Africa’s most awarded author. In 2020, she won the Women's Prize for Fiction 'Winner of Winners' for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun.

She has received 16 honorary doctorate degrees from some of the world’s most prominent universities including Yale.

In 2019, she became the first Nigerian and youngest African to win the UN Foundations Global Leadership Award.

Former winners include U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Kofi Annan.

[evelynhugosthings]

"Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel?"

Han Kang, Human Acts

[leyllethecreator]

Professional Afro-Hispanic Teen Author: where you can find my works

I have two ongoing novels releasing serialized updates.

One is a disability romance novel called "Damsel in the Red Dress" available here on Wattpad:

https://www.wattpad.com/story/365913868-damsel-in-the-red-dress

The other is a YA novel called "Rigamarole" available here on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103159083

[theupfish]

No Canadian school ever canceled any event with Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi survivor of the 2014 Yazidi genocide by ISIS. She is now an activist and Nobel Piece Prize winner.

Earlier this year, posts began to circulate social media, claiming that her visit to a Canadian school was canceled, for "fear of spreading Islamophobia."

Well....

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34RW8MG

Nadia Murad never even had any events scheduled in Canada to begin with. The story is as fake as the roadkill on Trump's head. Somebody pulled it right outta' their bum.

The oppression of the Yazidi people could definitely use some more attention, though.

[byronicreader]

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

- The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell.

[brian-in-finance]

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Trespasses

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.

Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.

As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.

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Remember when we learned we may hear an accent much like Ma’s on 24 May when Caitríona reads from Trespasses? ☘️

[literatureaesthetic]

wandering souls ; cecile pin

in vietnamese culture, there's a belief that if a body is not buried, the soul will never find rest. it's fated to wander the earth, the equivalent of a ghost or spirit. 'wandering souls', on multiple levels, is a story about being lost, searching the earth, trying to find refuge, security and meaning in the unknown

our main story arc is following anh and her two brothers as they escape communist vietnam, in hope for a new life in the usa. their parents and the rest of their siblings are to follow shortly after anh leaves. tragedy strikes and anh and her brothers find themselves alone, orphaned and refugees

alongside this main arc, we have a narrative following dao, the ghost of anh's young brother. as well as short clippings of real moments in history that are scattered throughout the novel

i think that for such a short book, the decision of having three different narratives (or two with historical inserts) creates a really fragmented, disjointed story. part of me thinks it nicely reflects the fractured lives of our characters, but it did feel jarring at times to keep track of the constant switches to different timelines and historical moments. i do think it was important to include all these different narratives, but i did find myself wanting it to be a little more cohesive or executed more efficiently

saying that, i think that cecile pin has created something that is quietly powerful, moving and impactful. from familial duty to documenting the horrors and struggles of the refugee experience, the racist politics of britain and the psychological aftermath of surviving traumas…. lots of important themes are tackled. i love reading about sibling relationships, and anh's role as the elderly sister had me🥺 and i really appreciated how vietnamese cultural beliefs were interwoven with the character’s journey

‘wandering souls’ felt like a deeply personal, unflinching story that needed to be told, but it does have a few small issues with execution & a lack of space for some of the narratives it was constructing, imo

[alexsfictionaddiction]

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 Longlist is here!

I'm sure that long time readers of my blog or followers of my Instagram will know that I have been following the Women's Prize for Fiction very closely for the last few years. I was really excited to discover that they were launching a sister prize celebrating non-fiction written by women (because it definitely tends to get lost in the very male-dominant sphere that is non-fiction). I am not a big non-fiction reader but as I get older, I have found myself becoming more interested in it. I think I'll always be a much bigger fiction reader but there are some genres within non-fiction that I am fascinated by, so it made sense for me to take a look at what the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist had to offer.

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction is open to non-fiction books written by women in English and published between 1st April 2023 and 31st March 2024. I believe it follows the same rules as the Fiction prize, in that books have to follow a narrative and that translated books are not eligible.

So, here are the 16 books on the first ever Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist!

Intervals by Marianne Brooker. Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions on 28th February 2024.

Thunderclap by Laura Cumming. Published by Chatto & Windus on 6th July 2023.

Shadows at Noon by Joya Chatterji. Published by Bodley Head on 13th July 2023.

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder. Published by Viking on 17th August 2023.

Matrescence by Lucy Jones. Published by Allen Lane on 22nd June 2023.

How To Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. Published by 4th Estate on 3rd October 2023.

Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista. Published by Grove Press on 2nd November 2023.

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia. Published by Picador on 28th March 2024.

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. Published by Hutchinson Heinemann on 12th October 2023.

The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia. Published by Allen Lane on 19th October 2023.

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles. Published by Profile Books on 13th July 2023.

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie. Published by Chatto & Windus on 7th September 2023.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. Published by Allen Lane on 12th September 2023.

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley. Published by Bloomsbury on 14th March 2024.

A Flat Place by Noreen Masud. Published by Hamish Hamilton on 27th April 2023.

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang. Published by Bloomsbury on 11th May 2023.

So, there's the longlist. There is a good mixture in terms of theme and I'm sure a lot of people will be excited about that. I'm afraid that for me, I'm really not very interested in many of them. I have copies of Eve and Some People Need Killing, so I'll be reading them. I am also interested in Doppelganger and Wifedom but they're both very expensive in all formats at the moment, so I'll see if I can get library copies. However, almost all of the others just aren't speaking to me!

The shortlist will be announced on 27th March and the winner will be announced on 13th June, which is the same date as the winner of the Fiction Prize. So, I imagine the award ceremony will be a very big celebration of women's writing, which is always an exciting event.

What do you think of the longlist? Will you be reading any? Have you read any? Should I pick up any that I don't think I'm interested in? Let me know!

[girlwithinfiction]

It is International Women's Month and a treat for our beloved reading women out there just came out— the 16-book longlist has just been released for 2023's Women's Prize for Fiction and your next favorite book might be in it!

The books are (in alphabetical order of title):

- Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

- Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

- Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

- Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

- Homesick by Jennifer Croft

- I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

- Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

- Pod by Laline Paull

- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

- The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

- The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

- Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

- Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

Happy reading, folks! 💛✨

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[mirthofbooks]

I don’t know how many of you are into the Women’s Prize for Fiction, but the longlist is being announced on March 7th and I made a video trying to guess which books will be on it :)

https://youtu.be/klei9tEatzE

[avvidstarion]

Need to get off booktube methinks

[jllongwrites]

Women's Prize for Fiction winners

"Since 1996, the Women's Prize for Fiction has recognized and celebrated the best fiction by women writers around the world. Bestselling novelist and playwright Kate Mosse founded the UK-based award to champion women in the male-dominated awards scene. Despite writing 60% of books published, by 1992 only 10% of authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize were women.

While representation of women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) authors on award lists has improved, the Women's Prize for Fiction continues to play a crucial role in shining a spotlight on outstanding writers. Past winners include Zadie Smith, Carol Shields, Ali Smith, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie."

[wordshaveteeth]

Why I picked this: This was not on my radar anywhere, until a work colleague (who has proved to be a reliable source) recommended it to me. Nevertheless I’m pleased it’s less than 250 pages long; I’ve been needing a little ‘snack’ book of late.

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Lay Down Your Arms by Bertha von Suttner: A Timeless Plea for Peace and Disarmament #TBRChallenge #bookchatter #BookReview

Lay Down Your Arms by Bertha von Suttner: A Groundbreaking Plea for Peace Introduction: A Pioneering Voice in the Fight for Peace Lay Down Your Arms (original title: Die Waffen nieder!), written by Austrian novelist and peace activist Bertha von Suttner in 1889, is more than just a novel. It is a manifesto, a passionate plea for peace, and a groundbreaking work of anti-war literature. This…

[wellesleybooks]

The Women's Prize 2024 winners have been announced.

BROTHERLESS NIGHT by V. V. Ganeshananthan has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Set in the early years of Sri Lanka’s civil war, a young girl dreams of becoming a doctor, as her family and friends are caught up in mounting violence.

DOPPELGÄNGER:A TRIP INTO THE MIRROR WORLD by Naomi Klein has won the first ever Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Klein’s comic, yet chilling memoir chronicles her experience with a doppelgänger- whose name and public persona were close enough to her own that people got confused about who was who.

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