Women's Prize for Fiction The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring fiction written by women. Follow this year’s judges on their reading journey, find out key dates and discover the books in the running to be the winner.

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2022 Shortlist

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

The Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Mason

The Bread the Devil Knead

Lisa Allen-Agostini

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

2022 Longlist

Build Your House Around My Body

Violet Kupersmith

Careless

Kirsty Capes

Creatures of Passage

Morowa Yejidé

Flamingo

Rachel Elliott