Daisy Goodwin to Chair 15th Orange Prize for Fiction Panel
(NewDesignWorld Press Release Center) -- Now in its fifteenth year, the Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman, celebrating excellence, innovation and accessibility and the best of outstanding international fiction in women’s writing.
The judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 have been confirmed as:
Daisy Goodwin (Chair), Author and TV Producer
Baroness Neuberger DBE, Rabbi, Author and Broadcaster
Michèle Roberts, Novelist and Critic
Miranda Sawyer, Journalist and Broadcaster
Alexandra Shulman, Editor of British Vogue
Daisy Goodwin, commented: “I’m very honoured to be chairing a female judging panel. Too often the term 'women's fiction' is used pejoratively as if there was something wrong with the books that women write and read. As I am addicted to reading I am really looking forward to the next six months and finding some great new books that will appeal to everybody.”
The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote international fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman. Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible.
The winner will receive a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.
Stuart Jackson, Director of Corporate Communications at Orange, commented: “We have a superb line up of judges for our 15th, in a year which has also been notably strong for fiction by women. We look forward to an exciting anniversary year.”
Previous winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction are Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter (1996), Anne Michaels for Fugitive Pieces (1997), Carol Shields for Larry’s Party (1998), Suzanne Berne for A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999), Linda Grant for When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), Kate Grenville for The Idea of Perfection (2001), Ann Patchett for Bel Canto (2002) Valerie Martin for Property (2003), Andrea Levy for Small Island (2004), Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk about Kevin (2005), Zadie Smith for On Beauty (2006), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), Rose Tremain for The Road Home (2008) and Marilyn Robinson for Home (2009).
For the 2010 Orange Prize, novels must be published in the UK between 1st April 2009 and 31st March 2010. The prize is administered by Booktrust, the UK charity for books and reading. Orange has sponsored the prize since its inaugural year, 1996. For more information, please visit www.orangeprize.co.uk
For further information, please contact:
Naomi Li at M&C Saatchi: Tel: 0207 544 3687 Email: naomi.li@mcsaatchi.com
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