London – American authors Elizabeth Strouth and Miranda July are among the finalists announced Wednesday for the Award for Women for Fictiontogether with four debut novelists who explore the search for freedom in different countries and cultures.
The mystery novel of the winner of the Pulitzer Stout Prize “Tell Me EverytyThing” and the writer “All Fours” by July, in which a “semi -banned artist” looks for a new life, are preselected for the 30,000 -pound prize ($ 39,000). It is open to female writers in any country.
The contestants also include the post-war story of the Dutch writer Yael Van der Wouden “The Saugeke” and the poet’s novel born in German Aria Aber “Good Girl”, about a teenager who explores her double German-Affgan heritage.
Also in the list are the intergenerational family saga of the writer Iran Sanam Mahloudji “Los Persas” and “fundamentally” by Nussaibah Youngo of Great Britain, about an academic who tries to rehabilitate women trapped with the Islamic state group.
The author Kit of Waal, who presides over the judges panel, said that the six books were “classics of the future” that explored “the importance of human connection.”
“The surprising and refreshing is seeing so much humor, nuances and lightness used by these novelists to shed light on challenging concepts,” he said.
The previous winners of the fiction award, founded in 1996, include Zadie Smith, Already Jones and Barbara Kingsolver.
Last year, the awards organizers launched a partner Women’s Prize for Non fiction to help rectify an imbalance in the publication. In 2022, only 26.5% of the non -fiction books reviewed in the newspapers of Great Britain were women, and the writers dominated the established non -fiction writing awards.
Winners of both non-fiction and fiction awards will be announced on June 12 at a ceremony in London.
