Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Lowland' in top UK prize longlist

New Delhi, Mar 7: Works by Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri and Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto figure in the 20-book longlist for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Earlier known as the Orange Prize, the UK's most prestigious annual book award is given for the best novel of the year written by a woman of any nationality in the English language. While Lahiri has been chosen for her Man Booker shortlisted novel "The Lowland", Bhutto has been included for her work "The Shadow of the Crescent Moon". The list also includes "The Luminaries" by last year's Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton of New Zealand, US writer Rachel Kushner's "The Flamethrowers" and Aussie writer Evie Wyld's "All the Birds, Singing"

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