The six books on the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist have been revealed!

This year’s shortlist features one previously shortlisted author and three debut novels.

Sarah Sands, 2018 chair of judges, said: ‘The shortlist was chosen without fear or favour. We lost some big names, with regret, but narrowed down the list to the books which spoke most directly and truthfully to the judges.

‘The themes of the shortlist have both contemporary and lasting resonance encompassing the birth of the internet, race, sexual violence, grief, oh and mermaids. Some of the authors are young, half by Brits and all are blazingly good and brave writers.’

2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist

• Elif Batuman, The Idiot
• Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
• Jessie Greengrass, Sight
• Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
• Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire
• Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

 

• Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction

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