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 Prize 2011
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht has won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
The winner was announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Wednesday 8 June. At 25, Obreht is the youngest-ever author to take the Prize. You can read more about the ceremony and the winner.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist
The Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist was announced at the London Book Fair on Tuesday 12 April. The following titles were shortlisted:
- Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan Macmillan/Picador)
- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury)
- Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson (Hodder & Stoughton/Sceptre)
- Great House by Nicole Krauss (Penguin/Viking)
- The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht (Orion/Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Random House/Jonathan Cape)
The longlisted titles can be viewed below.
You can also visit the Orange Prize website for more information, and why not join the Orange Prize Facebook group too? Here you will find all the latest news about this year's Prize.
Orange Prize for Fiction 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)
You can order all titles from your library suppliers.
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 2010
The winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 was The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Faber and Faber).
The winner of the Orange Award for New Writers was 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.
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.