The UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman – The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – has announced the 2015 shortlist. The selection includes five previously shortlisted authors and one debut novelist.
The 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist is:
Rachel Cusk – Outline
Laline Paull – The Bees
Kamila Shamsie – A God in Every Stone
Ali Smith – How To Be Both
Anne Tyler – A Spool of Blue Thread
Sarah Waters – The Paying Guests
The judges for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction are:
Shami Chakrabarti, (Chair), Director, Liberty
Laura Bates, writer and Founder of The Everyday Sexism Project
Grace Dent, Columnist and Broadcaster
Helen Dunmore, Novelist, Poet and Winner of the Inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction (1996)
Cathy Newman, Presenter, Channel 4 News
“You’ve heard of fantasy football? Well, short-listing for the 2015 Baileys Prize was the fantasy book club of a lifetime,” said Shami Chakrabarti, Chair of judges. “My fellow judges represent the best of British journalism, comment, literature and activism and our deliberations were heart-rendingly difficult but always as warm and collaborative as they were robust.”
She added, “The novels we shared and the shortlist we ultimately honour form a body of great women’s writing to entertain and inspire for many years to come.”
It’s worth checking out the long list of nominees
