
The judging panel for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction will be chaired by Monica Ali and Suzannah Lipscomb respectively, it has been announced.
Booker-prize nominated author Ali will head up the prestigious fiction prize, now in its 29th year, alongside judges Ayobami Adebayo, Indira Varma, Laura Dockrill and Anna Whitehouse – with the longlist expected to be announced on March 5 and the shortlist on April 24 next year.