Orange Prize for Fiction

Congratulations to Serbian/American author Téa Obreht for winning the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Tiger's Wife!

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury)
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson (Sceptre)
• Great House by Nicole Krauss (Viking)
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape)

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The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing throughout the world.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 

The 2011 longlist:

• Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Jamrach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch (Canongate)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi (Bloomsbury)
• Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty (Faber and Faber)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Corsair)
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury)
• The London Train by Tessa Hadley (Jonathan Cape)
• Grace Williams Says It Loud by Emma Henderson (Sceptre)
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt (Corsair)
• The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (Faber and Faber)
• Great House by Nicole Krauss (Viking)
• The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone (Chatto & Windus)
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (Viking)
• Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile (Serpent’s Tail)
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (Chatto & Windus)
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Serpent’s Tail)
• The Swimmer by Roma Tearne (Harper Press)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape)
  

The american author Barbara Kingsolver has won The Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 with her sixth novel The Lacuna.

"We chose The Lacuna because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy". Daisy Goodwin, chair of judges.

• The Lacuna in the bookshop
• Orange Prize for Fiction 2010
• Learn about the entry rules and regulations for the prize
  

• Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You
• Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
• Attica Locke, Black Water Rising
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
• Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
• Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

The winner will be announced the 9th of June 2010. The prize is awarded to the woman (of any nationality) who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English, provided that the novel is published for the first time in the United Kingdom between 1 April of the year before the prize is awarded and 31 March of the year in which the prize is awarded.

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