Baileys Women's Prize 2017 longlist
Thursday, Mar 09, 2017 at 11:28am
To coincide with International Women's Day, the longlist for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) was announced yesterday. The award honours the best novel published in English in the past year by a female author, and comes with a £30,000 ($49,000) prize.
Of the 16 authors on the list, we're thrilled to see that three are Canadians: Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, and Heather O'Neill.
The complete longlist can be found after the jump...
- Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
- Little Deaths by Emma Flint
- The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
- The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
- The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
- Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
- The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
- The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
- The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
- The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
- Barkskins by Annie Proulx
- First Love by Gwendoline Riley
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
The finalists will be announced April 7th, and the winner revealed on June 7th. For more information about the Baileys Women's Prize, visit the award's website.
Please note: Some of the titles on the longlist are not yet available in Canada, but North American editions are coming. Contact your nearest McNally Robinson bookstore if you're looking for any of the 2017 Baileys titles.
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