The Women’s Prize shortlist for 2022 announced
The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist for 2022 has been announced this morning (27 April). This year’s shortlist incorporates a range of themes including belonging and identity; the power of nature; the burden of history; personal freedom; sisterhood; mental illness; ghosts; gender violence; and the opportunity for renewal. The novels also offer globe-spanning settings, from Antarctica to Montana, Cyprus to Trinidad.
This year’s shortlist has been selected by the Chair of Judges Mary Ann Sieghart and her judging panel: Lorraine Candy, award-winning journalist and editor; Dorothy Koomson, global bestselling novelist, journalist and podcaster; Anita Sethi, award-winning author and literary journalist; and Pandora Sykes, journalist, broadcaster and author.
Chair of judges and bestselling writer Mary Ann Sieghart said:
We were blessed with an extraordinarily high quality of submissions this year, which made whittling down the longlist from 16 to six particularly difficult. But the shortlist contains a wonderfully diverse range of stories, subjects, settings and authors, from the experience of a Native American woman in a haunted bookshop to an early female aviator in the Antarctic. One novel is narrated by a tree; another by a book.
She added: “Some are laugh-out-loud funny, others tearful, and sometimes the two are combined in the same book. We judges have loved reading them all and we commend them to you as the best fiction written by women and published in the past year. Our only problem now will be to identify the winner out of these six brilliant novels.”
The six shortlisted books are as follows:
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
The winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction will be awarded on Wednesday 15 June 2022.
After many years of supporting the Prize behind the scenes, leading law firm Blake Morgan is now a partner of, and the Official Legal Provider to, the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The shortlisted books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and judges.
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