Orange Prize for Fiction

The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates women's writing. It is awarded annually for the best full-length novel by a female author published in the UK that year. It has become one of the most prestigious awards in the literary calendar and we have been involved since 2000. Orange also awards a prize for New Writers.

Orange Prize 2010

The winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Faber and Faber).

The winner of the Orange Award for New Writers is The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (Sceptre).

The shortlisted titles for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction were:

  • The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (Alma Books)
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Faber and Faber)
  • Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Serpent's Tail)
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (Faber and Faber)
  • The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (Simon and Schuster)

The shortlisted titles for this year's Orange Award for New Writers were:

  • The Book of Fires by Jane Borodale (HarperPress)
  • The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (Sceptre)
  • After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld (Jonathan Cape)

Libraries can promote the Orange Prize for Fiction and Orange Award for New Writers shortlist from April until June 2010. The shortlisted titles can be ordered from your library supplier.

The following novels were on the Orange Prize for Fiction longlist:

  • The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison (Alma Books)
  • The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Granta)
  • Savage Lands by Clare Clark (Random House/Harvill Secker)
  • Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig (Little Brown)
  • The Way Things Look to Me by Roopa Farooki (Macmillan/Pan)
  • The Twisted Heart by Rebecca Gowers (Canongate)
  • This is How by MJ Hyland (Canongate)
  • Small Wars by Sadie Jones (Random House/Chatto & Windus)
  • The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Faber and Faber)
  • Secret Son by Laila Lalami (Penguin/Fig Tree)
  • The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Review)
  • Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Profile/Serpent's Tail)
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (HarperCollins/4th Estate)
  • The Wilding by Maria McCann (Faber and Faber)
  • Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed (HarperCollins)
  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (Faber and Faber)
  • White Woman on a Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey (Simon and Schuster)
  • The Still Point by Amy Sackville (Portobello Books)
  • The Help by Kathyrn Stockett (Penguin/Fig Tree)
  • The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Little Brown/Virago)

Running the Orange Prize

The Reading Agency sells POS material for you to use in your Orange Prize promotion. You can get involved at a basic level by running displays at either the shortlist or longlist stage or you can use it to broaden your work with local readers. Many libraries choose to promote the Prize from the longlist of 20 books as this gives them a wider range of titles. The choice is yours.

Orange Prize 2009

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2009 winner was Home by Marilynne Robinson. The winner of the Orange Award for New Writers 2009 was An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay.

Orange Prize Readers' Day

In 2009 The Reading Agency organised the third Orange Readers' Day in Birmingham. Readers had the opportunity to spend time with writers and literary figures connected with the Prize, and all the writers' books were available for sale at the event at Birmingham's Conservatoire.

Orange Prize 2008 winners

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 winner was The Road Home by Rose Tremain. The winner of the New Writers Award 2008 was Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna.