Riverhead Author Kamila Shamsie Wins the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction
June 7, 2018
Riverhead author Kamila Shamsie has won the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel, HOME FIRE, it was announced at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, June 6. This annual award, now in its 23rd year, celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world.
“In the end we chose the book which we felt spoke for our times,” said Sarah Sands, chair of the Women’s Prize panel of judges. “HOME FIRE is about identity, conflicting loyalties, love and politics. And it sustains mastery of its themes and its form. It is a remarkable book which we passionately recommend.
“There are no small themes here … To humanize the big political stories that we are talking about, of terrorism, and to see it from the inside – the subtlety and the nuance and the idea of people being tested, what it means to be British or what it means to be a Muslim – it felt ‘of now’ ... And she does it so well.”
Ms. Shamsie said of her award win: “It’s lovely. It’s a slightly out of body experience. It will take a while to sink in.”
Congratulations to Ms. Shamsie and everyone at Riverhead Books. Batuman, Greengrass, Shamsie are Women’s Prize for Fiction Finalists
April 23, 2018
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2018 shortlist. This annual award, now in its 23rd year, celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. Three books published by Penguin Random House in the U.S. and Canada are on this year’s Women’s Prize shortlist:
Our Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlisters
March 14, 2018
The Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2018 Longlist. This annual award, now in its 23rd year, celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. Seven books published by Penguin Random House in the U.S. and Canada are on this year’s Women’s Prize Longlist:
THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman (Penguin Press)
- SIGHT by Jessie Greengrass (Hogarth, to be published 8/21/18)
- ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE by Gail Honeyman (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking)
- THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS by Arundhati Roy (Knopf/Vintage)
- SEE WHAT I HAVE DONE by Sarah Schmidt (Random House Audio)
- A BOY IN WINTER by Rachel Seiffert (Pantheon)
- HOME FIRE by Kamila Shamsie (Riverhead)'
- H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker (William Heinemann)
- The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar (Harvill Secker)
- The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal (Viking)