The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates novels that engage with the climate crisis through imaginative storytelling. Now in its second year, the winning author will receive a cash prize of £10,000.
Indian writer Keshava Guha’s novel, The Tiger’s Share, is in the running to win the prize. The novel follows two sisters, Tara and Lila, who are forced to confront the challenges of their ambition in a patriarchal Delhi society, and is set against a backdrop of ecological collapse and political unrest. It has been published by John Murray / Hachette in India and the UK.
The other novels on the shortlist are:
The Book of Records, Madeleine Thien, Granta Books
Dusk, Robbie Arnott, Chatto and Windus
Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan, Simon and Schuster UK
Endling, Maria Reva, Virago
Hum, Helen Phillips, Atlantic Books
The year’s jury features Arifa Akbar, chief theatre critic at the Guardian, novelists Kit de Waal and Jessie Greengrass, climate scientist Friederike Otto, and broadcaster Simon Savidge.
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