Orange Prize for Fiction
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The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes[citation needed], awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year.
The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie" created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven.
The fact that the prize singles out female writers is not uncontroversial. Booker Prize winner (1990) Antonia S. Byatt has called it a "sexist prize", claiming: "Such a prize was never needed." She has forbidden her publishers to enter her books for the Orange, as allegedly has another Booker winner (1984), Anita Brookner.
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[edit] 2008 Prize
The shortlist for the 2008 Orange Prize was announced by chair of judges Kirsty Lang on 15 April 2008
- Nancy Huston Fault Lines
- Sadie Jones The Outcast
- Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad
- Heather O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals
- Rose Tremain The Road Home
- Patricia Wood Lottery
[edit] Winners
- 1996: Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter
- 1997: Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
- 1998: Carol Shields - Larry's Party
- 1999: Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood
- 2000: Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
- 2001: Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection
- 2002: Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
- 2003: Valerie Martin - Property
- 2004: Andrea Levy - Small Island
- 2005: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- 2006: Zadie Smith - On Beauty
- 2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
- 2008: Rose Tremain - The Road Home
In 2005 the "Orange of Oranges" was awarded to Andrea Levy for Small Island.
[edit] See also
- List of British literary awards
- List of literary awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- List of years in literature
