The longlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.
Below are the sixteen longlisted books.
- Hangman by Maya Binyam
- In Defence of the Act by Effie Black
- And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
- The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright
- The Maiden by Kate Foster
- Brotherless Night by V V Ganeshananthan
- Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
- Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
- Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
- 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
- The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord
- Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
- Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
- Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
- River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure
- A Trace of Sun by Pam Williams
