‘Amma’ longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

In the UK, Sri Lankan Pākehā writer Saraid de Silva’s novel Amma has been longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Published in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by Moa Press, the book is one of 16 in the running for the £30,000 (A$59,442) prize.

The full longlist is:

• A Little Trickerie (Rosanna Pike, Fig Tree)
• All Fours (Miranda July, Canongate)
• Amma (Saraid de Silva, Moa Press)
• The Artist (Lucy Steeds, John Murray)
• Birding (Rose Ruane, Corsair)
• Crooked Seeds (Karen Jennings, Text)
• Dream Count (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fourth Estate)
• The Dream Hotel (Laila Lalami, Bloomsbury)
• Fundamentally (Nussaibah Younis, W&N)
• Good Girl (Aria Aber, Bloomsbury)
• The Ministry of Time (Kaliane Bradley, Sceptre)
• Nesting (Roisín O’Donnell, Scribner)
• The Persians (Sanam Mahloudji, Fourth Estate)
• The Safekeep (Yael van der Wouden, Viking)
• Somewhere Else (Jenni Daiches, Scotland Street Press)
• Tell Me Everything (Elizabeth Strout, Viking).

The Women’s Prize for Fiction is an annual book prize awarded to the ‘best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK’.

The shortlist will be announced on 2 April, with the winner to be announced on 12 June.

The winner of last year’s award was VV Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Night (Penguin).

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