The 23rd novel by acclaimed American author Louise Erdrich and an adult fiction debut by Trinidadian stand-up comedian Lisa Allen-Agostini were named finalists on Wednesday for the US$38,000 (RM166,000) Women’s Prize for fiction.
Erdrich’s The Sentence - set in a haunted Minneapolis bookstore - and Allen-Agostini’s Caribbean story of gender violence and liberation, The Bread The Devil Knead, are on a six-book shortlist for the prestigious British award.
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