Orwell prize for fiction shortlist replays 2019 Booker prize contest

Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other will vie with Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport for political writing award The clash between Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other and Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport for last year's Booker prize is set for a replay after both novels made the shortlist for the Orwell award for political fiction. The £3,000 prize, intended to reward novels that "illuminate major social and political themes", is in its second year and was won in 2019 by...