The Orange Prize for Fiction is an award given to women writers who have displayed great originality and excellence in a new novel. The winner wins a cheque for a not insignificant £30,000 and a bronze figurine known as a 'Bessie', which is unique each year, designed and donated by Grizel Niven.The chair of this year's judging panel is the famous writer, Joanna Trollope, who is accompanied by a group of well-known and successful writers and broadcasters: Lisa Appignanesi, Victoria Derbyshire, Natalie Haynes and Natasha Kaplinsky.
The longlist was announced yesterday, on International Women's Day, and includes a handful of debut novelists, which is always exciting to see. Last year's winner, Téa Obreht, was a debut novelist and the youngest to ever win the prize. Her novel was The Tiger's Wife.
Accompanying the debut novelists on the list are some more familiar names, including Ann Patchett, Ali Smith and 2011 nominee, Emma Donoghue, but who will win??
Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (Quercus) - Swedish; 1st Novel
On the Floor by Aifric Campbell (Serpent's Tail) - Irish; 3rd Novel
The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (The Clerkenwell Press) - American; 4th Novel
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (Picador) - Irish; 7th Novel
Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent's Tail) - Canadian; 2nd Novel
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) - Irish; 5th Novel
The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki (Headline Review) - British; 5th Novel
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (Quercus) - American; 4th Novel
Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury) - British; 3rd Novel
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris (Faber & Faber) - British; 2nd Novel
The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - British; 2nd Novel
The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape) - British; 6th Novel
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker) - American; 1st Novel
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) - American; 1st Novel
Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (Atlantic Books) - American; 7th Novel
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury) - American; 6th Novel
There but for the by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) - British; 5th Novel
The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard (Alma Books) - British; 2nd Novel
Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (Chatto & Windus) - British; 1st Novel
The Submission by Amy Waldman (William Heinemann) - American; 1st Novel
The shortlist will be announced on 17th April and the winner on 30th May.
The shortlist will be announced on 17th April and the winner on 30th May.
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