Previous winners include Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones and Maggie O'Farrell. The Women's Prize, founded in 1996, is open to female English-language writers from around the world. writer Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" and Trinidadian author Lisa Allen-Agostini's "The Bread the Devil Knead." She also stared at her face in a mirror for three hours for the nonfiction book "Timecode of a Face."īookmakers had ranked Ozeki's novel a longshot to win, behind New Zealand author Meg Mason's "Sorrow and Bliss," Turkish-British author Elif Shafak's "The Island of Missing Trees" and American writer Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle." This year's other finalists were U.S. Ozeki, who is also a filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, is the author of three previous novels, including the environmentally themed "My Year of Meats" and "All Over Creation." She was a Booker Prize finalist in 2013 for "A Tale for the Time Being," a Pacific-spanning story set after Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Reading with Pride: LGBTQ book sales soar, led by titles 'They Both Die at the End' and 'Heartstopper' 'The Book of Form and Emptiness': A masterful meditation on consumer culture from Ruth Ozeki
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