Who's on the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist
The Women's Prize for Fiction is a hugely well-regarded prize, known for promoting and celebrating the very best of women's writing. Launched in 1996, it's sole focus for the last 25 years has been fiction but following some research which showed a clear inequality between the treatment of men and women's non-fiction, the charity made the decision that a non-fiction prize was equally needed.
The inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction contains a real breadth of styles, including personal memoir, investigative journalism and innovative history books. The books come from a real range of disciplines, from neuroscience to economics and politics to art.
The long list was chosen by a panel of five judges, chaired by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb, and included fair fashion campaigner Venetia La Manna; academic, author and consultant Professor Nicola Rollock; biographer and journalist Anne Sebba; and author and 2018 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie.
"Reading for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction has been a revelation and a joy," said Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. "I am very proud to introduce the sensational books that make up the inaugural Longlist. Our selection represents the breadth of women's non-fiction writing: science, history, memoir, technology, literary biography, health, linguistics, investigative journalism, art history, activism, travel-writing and economics. And each author has created a masterpiece that is worthy of your attention. Buy them, borrow them – above all read them – and in so doing you'll be elevating women's voices and female perspectives in a whole range of disciplines and on a whole host of topics."
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024
*The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
*Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom by Grace Blakeley
*Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
*Intervals by Marianne Brooker
*Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
*Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
*Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines by Patricia Evangelista
*Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder
*Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
*Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
*A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
*All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
*Code-Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
*The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
*Chang Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots by Leah Redmond
The Women's Prize for Non-fiction shortlist will be announced on 27 March, with the winner named on Thursday 13 June 2024. The winner will receive a cheque for £30,000 and a limited-edition artwork known as the ‘Charlotte’, both gifted by the Charlotte Aitken Trust.
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