{"id":8676,"date":"2015-03-10T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:58","slug":"baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/10\/baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Baileys women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for fiction longlist revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shami Chakrabarti is chair of the judges for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baileys women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for fiction. Photograph: Roger Askew\/Rex<\/span><\/p>\n

The women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for fiction, established to redress the tendency by literary awards to overlook writing by women, is now in its 20th year, but chair of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s judges Shami Chakrabarti believes we are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153still nowhere near where we should be\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when it comes to literary recognition for women.<\/p>\n

Announcing a longlist of 20 titles for the Baileys women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for fiction, which runs the gamut from literary works by the likes of Ali Smith, Anne Tyler, Kamila Shamsie, Sarah Waters and Rachel Cusk to dystopian science fiction and thrillers, the Liberty director was adamant that there is still a place for a literary award focusing on women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fiction.<\/p>\n

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The women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prize for fiction was launched in the wake of the judges\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 failure to shortlist a single female author for the Booker prize of 1991. Literary figures led by the author Kate Mosse discovered that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153by 1992, only 10% of novelists shortlisted for the Booker prize had been women\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; by 1996, their plan to launch an award solely for women had come to fruition.<\/p>\n

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The award is open to novels written in English by women from anywhere in the world, provided they are published in the UK, and is intended to reward \u00e2\u20ac\u0153excellence, originality and accessibility in writing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Chakrabarti said there had been a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153very strong showing of UK writers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, on this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longlist.<\/p>\n

The winner will be announced on 3 June, following the unveiling of the shortlist on 13 April. The award has previously honoured writers including Eimear McBride, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Baileys Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Prize for Fiction longlist 2015:<\/p>\n