The Folio Prize Announces 2015 Nominations
London, UK, December 14, 2014—THE FOLIO PRIZE, sponsored by The Folio Society, has revealed the 80 books nominated by the Folio Prize Academy for consideration by this year's Folio Prize judges. These are the 80 works of fiction published in the UK in 2014 that, in the eyes of the 235 writers and critics who constitute the Academy, are the best of the year.
The Folio Prize Academy's role in selecting these 80 books is integral to the prize’s innovative peer review process. As an international body of writers and critics immersed in the world of books, the Academy is uniquely positioned to identify the most outstanding writing of our time.
The Folio Prize recognises and celebrates the best English language fiction from around the world, published in the United Kingdom in any given year regardless of form, genre or the author’s country of origin. Today's announcement of the list of 80 nominations from The Folio Prize Academy shines a light on the very best storytelling published in the UK in 2014.
Chair of judges William Fiennes comments:
“The list of nominations for this year’s Folio Prize is both daunting and exhilarating. It’s not just that the list has such range and richness. Reading the books, it’s as if we’re eavesdropping on a marvellous conversation about what a novel is and might be.”
Andrew Kidd, founder of The Folio Prize, says:
“We are delighted to announce this list of nominations from The Folio Prize Academy. The Folio Prize seeks to recognise and reward excellence, and the judges now have the exciting task of creating a shortlist from this selection of 80 outstanding books."
The 80 books nominated by The Folio Prize Academy this year are:
TITLE; Author; Publisher
10:04; Lerner, Ben; Granta
A God In Every Stone; Shamsie, Kamila; Bloomsbury Publishing
Academy Street; Costello, Mary; Canongate
After Me Comes The Flood; Perry, Sarah; Serpent's Tail
All My Puny Sorrows; Toews, Miriam; Faber & Faber
All Our Names; Mengistu, Dinaw; Sceptre
All The Days And Nights; Govinden, Niven; The Friday Project
All The Light We Cannot See; Doerr, Anthony; 4th Estate
All The Rage; Kennedy, AL; Jonathan Cape
Amnesia; Carey, Peter; Faber & Faber
Annihilation; Vandermeer, Jeff; 4th Estate
Arctic Summer; Galgut, Damon; Atlantic Books
Bald New World; Tieryas Liu, Peter; John Hunt Publishing
Bark; Moore, Lorrie; Faber & Faber
Be Safe I Love You; Hoffman, Cara; Virago
Boy, Snow, Bird; Oyeyemi, Helen; Picador
Can't & Won't; Davis, Lydia; Hamish Hamilton
Dear Thief; Harvey, Samantha; Jonathan Cape
Dept. of Speculation; Offill, Jenny; Granta
Dissident Gardens; Lethem, Jonathan; Jonathan Cape
Dust; Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo; Granta
Em And The Big Hoom; Pinto, Jerry; Viking
England And Other Stories; Swift, Graham; Simon & Schuster
Euphoria; King, Lily; Picador
Everland; Hunt, Rebecca; Fig Tree
Eyriel Winton, Tim; Picador
Family Life; Sharma, Akhil; Faber & Faber
Fourth Of July Creek; Henderson, Smith; William Heinemann
How To Be Both; Smith, Ali; Hamish Hamilton
In Search Of Solace; Mackie, Emily; Sceptre
In The Approaches; Barker, Nicola; 4th Estate
In The Light Of What We Know; Rahman, Zia Haider; Picador
J; Jacobson, Howard; Jonathan Cape
Kinder Than Solitude; Li, Yiyun; 4th Estate
Lila; Robinson, Marilynne; Virago
Life Drawing; Black, Robin; Picador
Lost For Words; St Aubyn, Edward; Picador
Love And Treasure; Waldman, Ayelet; Two Roads
Nora Webster; Toibin, Colm; Viking
On Such A Full Sea; Lee, Chang-Rae; Little, Brown
Orfeo; Powers, Richard; Atlantic Books
Outline; Cusk, Rachel; Faber & Faber
Perfidia; Ellroy, James; William Heinemann
Road Ends; Lawson, Mary; Chatto & Windus
Shark; Self, Will; Viking
Some Luck; Smiley, Jane; Mantle
Stay Up With Me; Barbash, Tom; Simon & Schuster
Stone Mattress; Atwood, Margaret; Bloomsbury Publishing
The Ballad Of A Small Player; Osborne, Lawrence; The Hogarth Press
The Bone Clocks; Mitchell, David; Sceptre
The Book Of Gold Leaves; Waheed, Mirza; Penguin
The Book Of Strange New Things; Faber, Michel; Canongate
The Country Of Icecream Star; Newman, Sandra; Chatto & Windus
The Dog; O'Neill, Joseph; 4th Estate
The Emerald Light In The Air; Antrim, Donald; Granta
The Emperor Waltz; Hensher, Philip; 4th Estate
The Fever; Abbott, Megan; Picador
The Heroes' Welcome; Young, Louisa; Harper Collins
The Incarnations; Barker, Susan; Doubleday
The Lie; Dunmore, Helen; Hutchinson
The Lives Of Others; Mukherjee, Neel; Chatto & Windus
The Narrow Road To The Deep North; Flanagan, Richard; Chatto & Windus
The Night Guest; McFarlane, Fiona; Sceptre
The Paying Guests; Waters, Sarah; Virago
The Tell-Tale Heart; Dawson, Jill; Sceptre
The Temporary Gentleman; Barry, Sebastian; Faber & Faber
The Wake; Kingsnorth, Paul; Unbound
The Zone Of Interest; Amis, Martin; Jonathan Cape
Their Lips Talk Of Mischief; Warner, Alan; Faber & Faber
Thunderstruck; McCracken, Elizabeth; Jonathan Cape
To Rise Again At A Decent Hour; Ferris, Joshua; Viking
Travelling Sprinkler; Baker, Nicholson; Serpent's Tail
Upstairs At The Party; Grant, Linda; Virago
Viper Wine; Eyre, Hermione; Jonathan Cape
Virginia Woolf In Manhattan; Gee, Maggie; Telegram Books
We Are Not Ourselves; Thomas, Matthew; 4th Estate
What You Want; Phipps, Constantine; Quercus
Wittgenstein; Iyer, Lars; Melville House
Young Skins; Barrett, Colin; Jonathan Cape
Your Fathers, Where Are They?...; Eggers, Dave; Hamish Hamilton
The shortlist for of eight titles will be announced on February 9, 2015, and the winner of The Folio Prize will be announced on Monday, March 23 at a ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in central London. The inaugural prize was awarded to the American writer George Saunders for his widely acclaimed collection of short stories, Tenth of December.
