Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karen Jennings, and Laila Lalami are on the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist announced on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. Previous winners of the prize first awarded in 1996 have included Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith, and Ali Smith.
Novelist Kit de Waal chairs the 2025 jury alongside bestselling author Kit de Waal, author, journalist and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon, award-winning editor Deborah Joseph, and neo-classical composer Amelia Warner. This panel announced the longlist for this year’s award earlier today.
Kit de Waal, Chair of the Jury said, “These are important, far-reaching novels where brilliantly realised characters navigate the complexities of families and modern relationships, whilst pushing the boundaries placed around them. It’s a list that readers will devour and shows the echoes of world events on everyday lives as well as the power and brilliance of women writing today.”
The writers of African descent on the longlist are;
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (published by 4th Estate, HarperCollins)
- The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami (published by Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury)
- Crooked Seeds, Karen Jennings (published by Holland House Books)
The shortlist will be made public on April 2 before the winner is revealed at a June 25, 2025 ceremony.
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