Nigerian-born-British author, Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, has been longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
The novel, which won her the Booker Prize for Fiction in 2019, revolves around the lives of Black British women and has been adjudged as ‘ambitious’ and ‘linguistically inventive.’
The 16-strong longlist for the this year’s prize includes big names such as two-time Booker Prize winner Hillary Mantel for her yet-to-be-published novel ‘The Mirror and the Light’, the final installation in her critically acclaimed trilogy; previous Women’s Prize winner Ann Patchet for ‘The Dutch House,’ and bestselling author Anne Enright for ‘Actress’.
Evaristo is the only African on the list as last year’s saw Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans and Akwaeke Emeze make the longlist.
If she’s announced as the winner on April 22, she would be the first author to ever win both the Booker and Women’s Prize.