Founded in 1996, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is a literary award, for women, by women and since its inception it’s become one of the most prestigious literary awards given out each year.
Earlier this month the 2019 longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced and we have that featured below. Coming up on April 29th will be the shortlist and we’ll bring you that as it happens, then the winner will be announced on June 5th.
Here’s that longlist and what a great list of books we have this year.
December 28, 2023
The For Reading Addicts Book of the Year 2023
Another year comes to a close, our eleventh running For Reading Addicts, and for the…
January 7, 2022
Robert Maxwell Biography Among Costa Book Award Winners
A biography of Robert Maxwell, father of convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, has won a Costa…
November 9, 2021
Female winner of 1m Euro literary prize turns out to be three men
A woman who won a €1 million literary prize has turned out to actually be…
November 6, 2021
Marcus Rashford Named FutureBook Person of the Year
Marcus Rashford MBE has been named FutureBook Person of the Year, and is the fourth…
October 12, 2021
2021 Nobel Prize Winner Announced
The winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been announced as Abdulrazak Gurnah,…
September 29, 2021
2021 Kindle Storyteller Shortlist Announced!
The Kindle Storyteller Award – which celebrates newly-published independent books by authors across any genre…