The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, 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 book award receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie"
created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven. 2005 saw the introduction of the new Orange Broadband Award for New Writers which takes the form of a £10,000 bursary, provided by Arts Council England.

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2011 Shortlist - Winner June 8th

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

• Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room; Picador; 7th Novel
• Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love; Bloomsbury; 2nd Novel
• Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud; Sceptre; 1st Novel
• Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House; Viking; 3rd Novel
• Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger’s Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel
• Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel; Jonathan Cape; 1st Novel

The judges for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction are:

Bettany Hughes, (Chair), Broadcaster, Historian and Author; Liz Calder, founder-director of Bloomsbury Publishing and Full Circle Editions; Tracy Chevalier, Novelist; Helen Lederer, Actress and Writer; Susanna Reid, Journalist and Broadcaster

2010 British Orange Prize and New Writers Winner & Shortlists

June 2010- The winner of this year's Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. Congratulations to Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Lacuna the story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthy-ite America.

Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, young Harrison Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in WWII. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina he remakes himself in America's hopeful image, but political winds continue to throw him between north and south.

Orange New Writers prize.

Australian Indie bookseller Evie Wyld has been shortlisted for After the Fire, a Still Small Voice which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in December last year.

Her novel is up against Jane Borodale’s 18th-century set The Book of Fires a nd The Boy Next Doorby Zimbabwean author Irene Sabatini.

Orange Prize Shortlisted 2010

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

2009 Orange Prize Winner

4th June, 2009- The 2009  Orange Prize, has been won by American  Marilynne Robinson for her novel : Home(Virago), Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for her novel Gilead, revisits the setting and some of the characters from her previous work, creating in Home, described by the judges, as “a kind, wise, enriching novel, exquisitely crafted.”

2009 Orange Prize Other Shortlisted

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Ellen Feldman: Scottsboro: A Novel (Picador), American, 3rd Novel

In Alabama, 1931, a posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting withwhite boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and the cry of rape goes up. A young journalist fights to save the nine...

Samantha Harvey: The Wilderness(Jonathan Cape), British, 1st Novel

Samantha Hunt: The Invention of Everything Else(HarvillSecker), American, 2nd Novel

Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel,stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Louisa discovers that the mysterious...

Deirdre Madden: Molly Fox's Birthday (Faber and Faber), Irish, 7th Novel

Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her...

Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury), Pakistani/British, 5th Novel

In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to GuantanamoBay. How did it come to this? he wonders August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the...

2009 New Orange Broadband New Writers Award Winner & Shortlist

Winner: Francesca Kay for An Equal Stillness, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s but her interest in art and creativityalienates her from her family, her father who is a priest, her conventional sister and her emotionally stunted mother. Jennet moves to London in search of a more exciting life and finds it in her new environment and in the handsome and enigmatic figure of the painter David Heaton. When Jennet falls pregnant, her parents more or less force the two to marry. In the post-war austerity of the 1940s, the young couple struggles to make ends meet and Jennet finds that her home life is gradually eroding everything she has fought to achieve. Aware that David is becoming increasingly reliant on drink and tired of the dank and drab bed-sit in which they live, Jennet suggests they move to Spain. There, the bright blue skies, warm air and sunlit beaches give the couple and their children a new lease of life. Jennet begins to paint again and an agent takes an interest in her work. But as Jennet's own career begins to take off, her relationship with David sours and the two enter a destructive spiral with tragic consequences.

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Other Shortlisted

Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun, Virago

A brutally honest, linguistically inventive and profoundly moving novel that will inspire a generation of readers Joon is a young Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father's...

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber, Macmillan New Writing

It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel andIsaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this unforgiving land. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is proud: black families are rare...

2009 Orange Prize Other Longlisted

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Debra Adelaide: The Household Guide to Dying(HarperCollins), Australian, 4th Novel

Desperate Housewives meets Six Feet Under in this brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia -- a modern day Mrs Beeton -- to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past.

Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress(Tindal Street Press), British, 1st Novel

Alfred Gibson's funeral has taken place at Westminster Abbey, and his wife of twenty years, Dorothea, has not been invited. Dorothea is comforted by her feisty daughter Kitty, until an invitation for a private audience with Queen Victoria arrives...

Lissa Evans: Their Finest Hour and a Half (Doubleday), British, 3rd Novel

In 1940, every draft of every film script had to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Newly crowned actor, script-writer, costumier and military attache must swallow their mutual distaste, ill-will and mistrust and unite for the common...

Bernadine Evaristo: Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton), British, 4th Novel

Presents an imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people. This title brings the shackles and cries of long-ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises questions about the society.

Laura Fish: Strange Music (Jonathan Cape), British, 2nd Novel

In 1837 an ailing Elizabeth Barrett is confined to bed, suffering debilitating illness. Longing for a return to health and mobility, she corresponds with friends, endures uncomfortable remedies, writes poetry and frets over her father and siblings. On the Barrett estate in Jamaica a Creole maidservant named Kaydia is struggling to save her child from the abusive attentions of the master. In the cane fields, indentured laborer and former slave Sheba mourns the loss of her lover.

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V.V. Ganeshananthan: Love Marriage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), American, 1st Novel

Allegra Goodman: Intuition (Atlantic Books), American, 6th Novel

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Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus), Australian, 3rd Novel

Toni Morrison: A Mercy(Chatto & Windus), American, 9th Novel

Gina Ochsner: The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight(PortobelloBooks), American, 1st Novel

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Preeta Samarasan: Evening Is the Whole Day (Fourth Estate), Malaysian,

Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife (Doubleday), American, 3rd Novel

Miriam Toews: The Flying Troutmans (Faber and Faber), Canadian, 4th Novel

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Ann Weisgarber: The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (Macmillan New Writing), American, 1st Novel

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Orange Prize Winners 1996 to present

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2009: Marilynne Robinson – Home

2008: Rose Tremain - The Road Home

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2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun

2006: Zadie Smith - On Beauty

2005: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin

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2004: Andrea Levy - Small Island

2003: Valerie Martin - Property

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2002: Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

2001: Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection

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2000: Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times

1999: Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood

1998: Carol Shields - Larry's Party

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1997: Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces

1996: Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter

 

New Orange Broadband New Writers Award Winners 2005 to present

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2009 Francesca Kay for An Equal Stillness

2008 Joanna Kavenna Inglorious

2007 Karen Connolly The Lizard Cage

2006 Naomi Alderman Disobedience

2005 Diana Evans 26a

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