The UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, announced yesterday the 2007 shortlist. Muriel Gray, Chair of judges, said she was exhilarated to help “further expose women authors at this level of excellence to as wide a reading public as possible.” Without further ado, here’s the shortlist (with odds):
- 11/4 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
- 3/1 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
- 7/2 Rachel Cusk Arlington Park
- 5/1 Jane Harris The Observations
- 11/2 Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
- 11/2 Anne Tyler Digging to America
