Emily Perkins makes Women's Prize for Fiction longlist

13 Mar 2013 - Booksellers NZ

The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly The Orange Prize) longlist has been announced and includes New Zealand writer Emily Perkins.

The longlist is:

Kitty Aldridge - A Trick I Learned From Dead Men (Jonathan Cape)
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life (Doubleday)
Ros Barber - The Marlow Papers (Sceptre)
Shani Boianjiu - The People of Forever are Not Afraid (Hogarth)
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Sheila Heti - How Should a Person Be? (Harvill Secker)
A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven (Granta)
Barbara Kingslover - Flight Behaviour (Faber & Faber)
Deborah Copaken Kogen - The Red Book (Virago)
Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
Bonnie Nadzam - Lamb (Hutchinson)

Emily Perkins - The Forrests (Bloomsbury Circus)

Michèle Roberts - Ignorance (Bloomsbury)
Francesca Segal - The Innocents (Chatto & Windus)
Maria Semple - Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Elif Shafak - Honour (Viking)
Zadie Smith - NW (Hamish Hamilton)
M L Stedman - The Light Between Oceans (Doubleday)
Carrie Tiffany - Mateship with Birds (Picador)
G Willow Wilson - Alif the Unseen (Corvus Books)

The shortlist will be announced on 16 April and the winner will be announced on 5 June.

Footnote:
This is a star-studded field, my warmest congratulations to Emily Perkins on her inclusion. I guess the favourite will be Hilary Mantel, her latest has already won three major awards this year.