Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Actress by Anne Enright, and Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara are all longlisted.
Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Actress by Anne Enright, and Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara are all longlisted.
Three Penguin books have been named on the longlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating women’s fiction: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, Actress by Anne Enright, and Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara.
Bernardine Evaristo’s bestselling Girl, Woman, Other was named as one of the two winners of last year’s Booker Prize, alongside The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. The story follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years, and has been described as ‘beautifully interwoven stories of identity, race, womanhood, and the realities of modern Britain’ (Nicola Sturgeon).
Actress is the eagerly-awaited new release from Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, it's an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. It’s been described as ‘a perfect jewel of a book’ (Spectator) and ‘an immersive, masterful novel’ (Red Magazine).
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is the debut novel from Deepa Anappara, an award-winning journalist known for her work on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children. The book follows nine-year old Jai, who, together with two of his friends, uses the crime-solving skills he has picked up from reality cop shows to try to find a boy at school who has gone missing. Ian McEwan calls it ‘a brilliant debut’, while The Observer lauds Deepa’s creation of ‘an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India’.
The shortlist for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on 22nd April, with the winner crowned at a ceremony on 3rd June. For the full longlist and more details about this year's award, visit the Women's Prize for Fiction website.