Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize.
Smith’s first historical novel The Fraud and Murray’s Booker-shortlisted tale The Bee Sting are joined on the fiction shortlist by The Wren, the Wren, Anne Enright’s story of an unhappy family that Elizabeth Lowry called “intimate and ambiguous” in her Guardian review.
