Orange Prize Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced:

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 on 9th June. Find out more at http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/show/feature/home/orange-2010-opf-shortlist

Orange Prize

The longlist for this year's Orange Prize book award has just been announced:

Debra Adelaide - The Household Guide to Dying

Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress
Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half
Bernardine Evaristo - Blonde Roots
Ellen Feldman - Scottsboro
Laura Fish - Strange Music

V.V. Ganeshananthan - Love Marriage

Allegra Goodman - Intuition
Samantha Harvey - The Wilderness
Samantha Hunt - The Invention of Everything Else

Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog
Deirdre Madden - Molly Fox’s Birthday
Toni Morrison - A Mercy
Gina Ochsner - The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
Marilynne Robinson - Home
Preeta Samarasan - Evening is the Whole Day
Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Miriam Toews - The Flying Troutmans
Ann Weisgarber - The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Find out more about the books and authors at http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/show/feature/home/orange-prize-2009-longlist