2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction longlist announced
Date: March 19, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The 20 books making up the longlist for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction have been named. They are:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
Clare Allan for Poppy Shakespeare
Rachel Cusk for Arlington Park
Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss
Patricia Ferguson for Peripheral Vision
Margaret Forster for Over
Nell Freudenberger for The Dissident
Rebecca Gowers for When to Walk
Xiaolu Guo for A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Jane Harris for The Observations
M J Hyland for Carry Me Down
Lori Lansens for The Girls
Lisa Moore for Alligator
Catherine O’Flynn for What Was Lost
Stef Penney for The Tenderness of Wolves
Deborah Robertson for Careless
Rachel Seiffert for Afterwards
Jane Smiley for Ten Days in the Hills
Anne Tyler for Digging to America
Melanie Wallace for The Housekeeper
The Orange Prize for Fiction is an annual literary prize that awards the best English language full-length novel written by a woman of any nationality in the preceding year, and published in the UK. The winner receives £30,000.
This year’s shortlist will be unveiled on April 17th, and the winners will be known on June 6th.
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