‘Tracker’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction

In the UK, Alexis Wright’s book Tracker (Giramondo) has been longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction.

Published in the UK in January by Other Stories, the book is one of 16 in the running for the £30,000 (A$59,442) prize.

The full longlist is:

• Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane)
• Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (Eleanor Barraclough, Profile)
• The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Helen Castor, Allen Lane)
• A Thousand Threads (Neneh Cherry, Fern Press)
• The Story of a Heart (Rachel Clarke, Abacus)
• Raising Hare (Chloe Dalton, Canongate)
• Ootlin (Jenni Fagan, Hutchinson Heinemann)
• Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life (Lulu Miller, Pushkin)
• Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka (Clare Mulley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (Rebecca Nagle, HarperCollins)
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Sue Prideaux, Faber)
• What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean (Helen Scales, Grove)
• The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (Kate Summerscale, Bloomsbury)
• Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men (Harriet Wistrich, Penguin)
• Tracker (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)
• Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China (Yuan Yang, Bloomsbury)

The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is an annual book prize that ‘celebrates exceptional narrative nonfiction by women’ and is ‘open to all women writers from across the globe who are published in the UK and writing in English’.

The winner of last year’s award was Naomi Klein for Doppelganger: A trip into the mirror world (Allen Lane).

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