Two Irish authors, Eimear McBride and Audrey Magee have been named in the shortlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Formally known as the Orange Prize, the winner will take home £30,000. Magee is nominated for her debut novel The Undertaking with McBride also being nominated for her debut, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.
The pair are joined on the shortlist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah), Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch), Hannah Kent (Burial Rites) and Jhumpa Lahiri (The Lowland).
The winner will be announced in London on June 4th.
"We are very excited by the books we have chosen for the shortlist" said Chair of Judges Helen Fraser.
"Each one is original and extraordinary in its own way - each offers something different and exciting and illuminating.
"We feel you could give any one of these books to a friend with the absolute confidence that they would be gripped and absorbed and that maybe their view of the world would be changed once they had read it."
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