Isabella Hammad & James Meek Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has longlisted both Isabella Hammad's The Parisian, a sweeping love story that spans Palestine, France and Egypt in the first half of the 20th century, and James Meek's To Calais, in Ordinary Time, a novel set in the fourteenth century about home, belonging, love and courage, for this year's £25,000 prize.
A shortlist will be announced at the beginning of April and each shortlisted author will receive £1,500, an increase from £1,000 in previous years, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the UK. The winner will be announced at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival in Scotland on 12th June.