The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction is awarded every year to the best novel by a female writer.
The winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction for 2009 was announced as Marilynne Robinson for Home. The New Writer's Award went to Francesca Kay for her debut novel, An Equal Stillness. Both awards were announced on the 3rd June.
The titles long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 were as follows:
Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying, HarperCollins
Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress, Tindal Street
Lissa Evans, Their Finest Hour and a Half, Doubleday
Bernadine Evaristo, Blonde Roots,Hamish Hamilton
Ellen Feldman, Scottsboro,Picador
Laura Fish, Strange Music, Cape
V V Ganeshananthan, Love Marriage, Weidenfeld
Allegra Goodman, Intuition, Atlantic Books
Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness, Cape
Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else, HarvillSecker
Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog, Chatto
Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox’s Birthday, Faber
Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto
Gina Ochsner, The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight, Portobello
Marilynne Robinson, Home, Virago
Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate
Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows, Bloomsbury
Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife, Doubleday
Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans, Faber
Ann Weisgarber, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, Macmillan New Writing
The judges are Fi Glover (Chair), broadcaster, Bidisha, writer and novelist, Sarah Churchwell, journalist and academic, Kira Cochrane, journalist, and Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur.
The winner of the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was announced on the 4th June and is Rose Tremain for The Road Home, Chatto. The Award for New Writers went to Joanna Kavenna for Inglorious, Faber.
For more information please visit
www.orangeprize.co.uk
