LONDON, March 9 — The longlist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 has been revealed.

It features established authors such as Margaret Atwood and Annie Proulx, as well as first-time authors such as Emma Flint and Fiona Melrose.

A shortlist of six novels will be selected from the pool, before the winner is announced on June 7.

The prestigious annual prize is awarded to a female author every year, for a novel written in English and published in the UK.

The longlisted novels for 2107 are:

Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo

The Power, Naomi Alderman

Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood

Little Deaths, Emma Flint

The Mare, Mary Gaitskill

The Dark Circle, Linda Grant

The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride

Midwinter, Fiona Melrose

The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan

The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso

The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O’Neill

The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry

Barkskins, Annie Proulx

First Love, Gwendoline Riley

Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien

The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain

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