Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom is on this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. The longlist of sixteen also includes previous winner Ali Smith.
Commenting on Transcendent Kingdom, one of the judges Vick Hope said, “[It] had me in tears, wailing, the most emotional I’ve felt after reading a book, for a long, long time.”
Transcendent Kingdom was longlisted for the 2021 Pen/Faulkner Award
Chair of judges and novelist Bernardine Evaristo, says: ‘We read so many brilliant novels for this year’s prize and had an energetic judging session where we discussed our passions, opinions and preferences. Sadly, we had to let some very deserving books go but we’re confident that we have chosen sixteen standout novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations. These novels fascinated, moved, inspired and challenged us and we’re excited at announcing their inclusion on the Women’s Prize longlist.’
Bernardine is joined on the judging panel by Elizabeth Day, Vick Hope, Nesrine Malik and Sarah-Jane Mee.
This year’s longlist also includes the first transwoman to be longlisted for the prize.
A shortlist of 6 novels will be announced on April 28th. The 25th winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced on Wednesday 7th July.
Click here to see the full longlist.
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