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Hyland, Catton on Orange Prize longlistM J Hyland (This is How, Text) and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (The Rehearsal, A&U) are among the authors on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize ...
In Brief
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year's Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has been launched a...
Obreht wins 2011 Orange Prize
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the youngest-ever author to win the &...
Committee hopes to launch prize for women writers by 2012
Australia could have an equivalent of the Orange Prize by as early as 2012. Sophie Cunningham, former Meanjin editor and spokesperson for the as yet unnamed prize's steering committee, told the Weekly...
Orange Prize shortlist
The six book shortlisted for this year's Orange Prize are:Room (Emma Donoghue)Grace Williams Says It Loud (Emma Henderson)The Tiger’s Wife (Tea Obreht)Annabel (Kathleen Winter)Great House (Nico...
2011 Orange Prize longlist announced
The longlist for the 2011 Orange Prize for fiction, which is awarded to celebrate 'excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing throughout the world', has been announced. This year's s...
Orange Prize shortlist
The six contenders for this year's Orange Prize have been announced:Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel, Fourth Estate)The Very Thought of You (Rosie Alison, Alma)The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver, Faber)Black Wate...
Orange Prize judge: 'Spare us your misery'
One of the judges for this year's Orange Prize has criticised many of the entries for this year's award for being 'grim' and miserable.
Marilynne Robinson wins Orange Prize
'This year's Orange Prize winner has a luminous quality to it that has drawn all of the judges to a unanimous decision. The profound nature of the writing stood out, as has the ability of writer to dr...
Evaristo wins Orange Youth Prize
Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton) has been chosen by the Orange Prize youth panel as their overall winner. The news comes on the eve of the Orange Prize winner announcement. T...
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