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Toronto author Sheila Heti makes long list for Women's Prize for Fiction

By: The Canadian Press

Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM | Comments: 0

LONDON - Toronto author Sheila Heti is among the contenders for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction.

Heti's book "How Should A Person Be?" has made the long list of 20 candidates for the award that was previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction.

The annual U.K. honour, now into its 18th year, celebrates writing by women in English around the world.

The winner gets 30,000 pounds, or about $46,000 Canadian.

Heti's competition includes Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel "Bring Up the Bodies."

Other nominees include previous Orange Prize winners Barbara Kingsolver for "Flight Behaviour" and Zadie Smith for "NW."

The winner will be announced in London on June 5.

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