The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction – the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman - has announced its 2014 long list.
It's a big moment for the CG team that worked with Baileys to build the website, where the long list and, ultimately, the short list, will be published.
The CG team is managing huge volumes of traffic to the site as national attention focuses on the authors nominated for the honour.
As well as building the site, CG is working with Baileys to deliver all the digital assets and ensuring the site stays live throughout.
The prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing from women from across the globe and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman.
CG's Creative Director Ed Gould said:
"The prize is one of the most famous in the world, so there is international interest and the website must operate perfectly.
"We have been working with Baileys to deliver a really innovative digital platform that showcases this fantastic competition to a worldwide audience.
"This is typical of the work our web team, which is home to some of the most talented specialists in web design and build in the south, is delivering on a daily basis."
This year’s longlist honours both rising stars of literature and well-established writers, and features six debut writers as well as two previous winners.
The five judges, Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, Denise Mina, writer, Times columnist and author, Caitlin Moran, broadcaster Sophie Raworth and Chair, Helen Fraser, Chief Executive of the Girls’ Day Trust, have been busy reading over the last few months. They had the unenviable task of narrowing 158 books down to just twenty in a bid to bring you the best of this year’s international female fiction.
The judge’s next job is to whittle these twenty titles down to a shortlist of six titles – to be announced on Monday 7th April 2014.
The winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014, who will be announced at an awards ceremony in central London on June 4th, will receive a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a ‘Bessie’ – both are anonymously endowed.
For more information on this year’s twenty longlisted books and authors, please visit the website.
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