Vandaag is de longlist bekendgemaakt voor de Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Op 23 april wordt de shortlist gepubliceerd en op 6 juni weten we wie zich de opvolger mag noemen van Naomi Alderman die vorig jaar won met The Power. De genomineerden zijn:

H(A)PPY – Nicola Barker
The Idiot – Elif Batuman
Three Things About Elsie – Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma – Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock – Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight – Jessie Greengrass
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife – Meena Kandasamy
Elmet – Fiona Mozley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done – Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter – Rachel Seiffert
Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie
The Trick to Time – Kit de Waal
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward