The 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlist is announced


Posted on 9th March 2022

The Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced the longlist for 2022 with 16 truly distinctive novels selected.

There are five British authors, six Americans, two New Zealanders, one Turkish-British, one American-Canadian, and one Trinidadian writer on the longlist. Alongside four debut novelists, five authors have been previously longlisted.

Chair of judges and author Mary Ann Sieghart, said:

Choosing just 16 novels from 175 submissions was a marathon task. After a lively and passionate discussion, my fellow judges were delighted to find that our 16 favourite novels were incredibly diverse, written by women of all ages from all over the world, covering different genres, and from publishers large and small. We are confident that this wonderful, eclectic and inspiring longlist will offer something to entrance every reader, both male and female.

Mary Ann is joined on the judging panel by Lorraine Candy, award-winning journalist and editor; Dorothy Koomson, global bestselling novelist, journalist and podcaster; Anita Sethi, award-winning author and literary journalist; and Pandora Sykes, journalist, broadcaster and author.

The 16 longlisted books are as follows:

The judging panel will now whittle these books down to a shortlist of just six novels, announced on 27 April. The winner of the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 15 June.

Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

After many years of supporting the Prize behind the scenes, leading law firm Blake Morgan is now a partner of, and the Official Legal Provider to, the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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