2022 Dylan Thomas Prize Longlist Announced
Feb 04, 2022
Swansea University in Wales has announced the longlist for its £20,000 Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world's largest literary prizes for young writers. Launched in 2006, the prize recognizes the best published literary work in the English language written by an author aged 39 or under. Previous winners include Raven Leilani, Maggie Shipstead, Bryan Washington, and Claire Vaye Watkins,
The shortlist will be announced on March 31, and winners will be announced at a ceremony held in Swansea on May 12.
The longlist is as follows:
- A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Hogarth)
- What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree Bailey (Yale University Press)
- Keeping the House by Tice Cin (And Other Stories)
- Auguries of a Minor God by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe (Faber)
- The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Little, Brown)
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead)
- Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz (Grove)
- Hot Stew by Fiona Mozley (Algonquin)
- Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Black Cat)
- Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (Little, Brown)
- Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead)
- Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead)
