The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 shortlist has been announced

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The shortlist is as follows: • Anne Enright, The Wren, The Wren • VV Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night • Kate Grenville, Restless Dolly Maunder • Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost • Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor • Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West open image in gallery Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 shortlist stack Last year, Barbara Kingsolver became the first person to win the award twice with her novel Demon Copperhead. open image in gallery Restless Dolly Maunder and its author, Kate Grenville While this year’s shortlist features established writers who have put out several books before this – eight for Grenville, seven for Anne Enright and four for Claire Kilroy – it also features newer authors. open image in gallery The Wren, The Wren and its author, Anne Enright The Independent’s chief book critic Martin Chilton described the novel as one that “gradually unpicks a story of betrayal, loneliness, selfishness, and shows, in a compassionate, forceful way, the problems Nell faces navigating a cruel world.” In Enter Ghost, Hammad tells the story of a Palestinian woman who returns to the West Bank and is involved in a stage production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Each book is gloriously compelling and inventive and lingers in the heart and mind long after the final page.” open image in gallery Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 judges: Indira Varma, Anna Whitehouse, Monica Ali, Ayobami Adebayo and Laura Dockrill Ali is joined on the panel of judges by author Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, author and illustrator Laura Dockrill, actor Indira Varma and presenter and author Anna Whitehouse.