![]() Malik called Dolan’s debut “a taut, gripping book full of unsympathetic characters that for some reason you remain extremely invested in.” Mee said of MacMahon’s novel: “Widower David examines his relationship with his dead wife and their 20-year marriage. The chair of this year’s judges is 2019 Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, whose fellow judges are Elizabeth Day Vick Hope Nesrine Malik and Sarah-Jane Mee. Perhaps the best-known name on the list, however, is actor and author Dawn French. The list includes Ali Smith, a previous winner who has also been shortlisted twice before, and Amanda Craig, who has previously been longlisted. ![]() Naoise Dolan has been nominated for Exciting Times, one of six debuts on the list, and Kathleen MacMahon for her acclaimed third novel, Nothing But Blue Sky. ![]() Two Irish authors have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, along with six British and five American authors, one Canadian, one Barbadian and one Ghanaian / American. ![]()
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