Bernardine Evaristo makes Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

In a list of 16, Nigeria’s Bernardine Evaristo has made the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist for her Booker Prize winning novel ‘Girl, Woman, Other.’

Chair of the judges, Martha Lane Fox, said: “Ahead of the longlist meeting I was anxious that the negotiations between judges might be as arduous as Brexit, but it was an absolute delight to pick our final 16 books. Entries for the Prize’s 25th year have been spectacular and we revelled in the variety, depth, humanity and joy of the writing – we hope everyone else will too.”

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ follows the lives of 12 characters in the United Kingdom over the course of several decades.