2024 Writers’ Prize Shortlist Announced

The Writers’ Prize, formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize, has announced the first shortlists since its relaunch. The shortlists for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry are as follows:

Fiction

  • The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

  • The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Nonfiction 

  • Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming

  • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 

  • A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O’Connell

Poetry 

  • Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant

  • The Home Child by Liz Berry

  • Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan

 

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