RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 – The Longlist
26/03/2020
We are pleased to announce the longlist for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020 for books (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) best evoking the spirit of a place.
| Jay Bernard | Surge | (Chatto & Windus) |
| Jane Clarke | When the Tree Falls | (Bloodaxe Books) |
| Laura Cumming | On Chapel Sands | (Chatto & Windus) |
| Tishani Doshi | Small Days and Nights | (Bloomsbury Circus) |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | (Galley Beggar Press) |
| Luan Goldie | Nightingale Point | (HQ Fiction) |
| Adam Higginbotham | Midnight in Chernobyl | (Bantam Press) |
| Kathleen Jamie | Surfacing | (Sort of Books) |
| Robert Macfarlane | Underland | (Hamish Hamilton) |
| Tim Mackintosh-Smith | Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires |
(Yale University Press London) |
| Philip Marsden | The Summer Isles | (Granta Books) |
| Robert Minhinnick | Nia | (Seren) |
| Anita Mir | The Inside City | (Unbound Digital) |
| Max Porter | Lanny | (Faber & Faber) |
| Roger Robinson | A Portable Paradise | (Peepal Tree Press) |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | (Viking) |
| Anna Sherman | The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time | (Picador) |
| Jumoke Verissimo | A Small Silence | (Cassava Republic) |
Please read the press release for more information.
This year’s judges are This year’s judges are Peter Frankopan (Chair), Pascale Petit and Evie Wyld.
If you have any media enquiries, please contact Annette Brook: [email protected].
The shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 20 April. The winner will be announced on Monday 4 May.
