Anne Enright, Kate Atkinson, Petina Gappah, Hanya Yanagihara op longlist Women's Prize

The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (eerder The Orange Prize for Fiction) wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt aan de beste door een vrouw geschreven roman. De afgelopen jaren wonnen Ali Smith (2015), Eimear McBride (2014), A.M. Homes (2013), Madeline Miller (2012), Téa Obreht (2011), Barbara Kingsolver (2010), Marilynne Robinson, Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver en Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Dit is de longlist:

• Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins [lees onze recensie]
• Shirley Barrett, Rush Oh!
• Cynthia Bond, Ruby
• Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
• Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
• Jackie Copleton, A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
• Rachel Elliott, Whispers Through a Megaphone
• Anne Enright, The Green Road
• Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory
• Vesna Goldsworthy, Gorsky
• Clio Gray, The Anatomist’s Dream
• Melissa Harrison, At Hawthorn Time
• Attica Locke, Pleasantville
• Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies
• Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen
• Sara Novic, Girl at War
• Julia Rochester, The House at the Edge of the World
• Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love
• Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life