Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – Longlist Announced

Launched in 1996, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded annually and celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000.

The judges for 2014 are Helen Fraser, Caitlin Moran, Sophie Raworth, Mary Beard, and Denise Mina.

The Baileys Women’s Prize longlist in full:

1. ChimAmanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah
2. Margaret Atwood – MaddAddam
3. Suzanne Berne –  The Dogs of Littlefield
4. Fatima Bhutto – The Shadow of the Crescent Moon
5. Claire Cameron –  The Bear
6. Lea Carpenter – Eleven Days
7. M.J. Carter – The Strangler Vine
8. Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries
9. Deborah Kay Davies – Reasons She Goes to the Woods
10. Elizabeth Gilbert – The Signature of All Things
11. Hannah Kent – Burial Rites
12. Rachel Kushner – The Flamethrowers
13. Jhumpa Lahiri – The Lowland
14. Audrey Magee – The Undertaking
15. Eimear McBride – A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing – WINNER
16. Charlotte Mendelson – Almost English
17. Anna Quindlen – Still Life with Bread Crumbs
18. Elizabeth Strout – The Burgess Boys
19. Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch
20. Evie Wyld – All The Birds, Singing

Previous Winners Include:

1. May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes (2013)
2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (2012)
3. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht (2011)
4. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (2010)
5. Home by Marilynne Robinson (2009)
6. The Road Home by Rose Tremain (2008)
7. Half of a Yellow Sun by ChimAmanda Ngozi Adichie (2007)
8. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2006)
9. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2005)

Follow this link to see the other winners.

by Amanda Patterson