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Anne Tyler, Ali Smith, Emma Healey on Women’s Prize longslist
The Baileys Women's Prize announced its 2015 longlist yesterday night, with 11 previously nominated authors joining five who've made the list with their debut novels.
Among the longlistees, Ali Smith's "How to Be Both" was previously shortlisted for a Man Booker and won a Costa Book Award in the novel category, Emma Healey's "Elizabeth is Missing" won the Costa Book Award for best first novel, and American author Anne Tyler is on the list with her 20th novel.
The following are authors who have previously been shortlisted: Rachel Cusk (2007), Xiaolu Guo (2007), Samantha Harvey (2009), Heather O'Neill (2008), Kamila Shamsie (2009), Ali Smith (2001), Anne Tyler (1996, 2007) and Sarah Waters (2002, 2006).
Previous long-listed authors are Lissa Evans, Patricia Ferguson and Rachel Seiffert.
The longlist includes 13 British authors, two American, two Canadian, one Pakastani/British, one Chinese/British and one British/American.
The longlist:
Rachel Cusk: "Outline"
Lissa Evans: "Crooked Heart"
Patricia Ferguson: "Aren't We Sisters?"
Xiaolu Guo: "I Am China"
Samantha Harvey: "Dear Thief"
Emma Healey: "Elizabeth is Missing"
Emily St. John Mandel: "Station Eleven"
Grace McCleen: "The Offering"
Sandra Newman: "The Country of Ice Cream Star"
Heather O'Neil: "The Girl Who Was Saturday Night"
Laline Paull: "The Bees"
Marie Phillips: "The Table of Less Valued Knights"
Rachel Seiffert: "The Walk Home"
Kamila Shamsie: "A God in Every Stone"
Ali Smith: "How to be Both"
Sara Taylor: "The Shore"
Anne Tyler: "A Spool of Blue Thread"
Sarah Waters: "The Paying Guests"
Jemma Wayne: "After Before"
PP Wong: "The Life of a Banana"
Founded in 1996 and often grouped with the Costa Book Awards and the Man Booker Prize as part of the trinity of major UK book awards, the Baileys Women's Prize (previously the Orange Prize) is open to any full-length novel by a woman writing in English.
Last year's winner was Eimear McBride for "A Girl is a Half-formed Thing."
A shortlist will be announced April 13, followed by an awards ceremony on June 3. — AFP/Relaxnews, March 10, 2015.
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