The Orange Prize for Fiction

Set up in 1996, the Orange Prize for Fiction has fast become one of the most talked about literary prizes in the UK, with its aim to promote and celebrate novels written by women.

THE FUTURE'S FICTION

Part of the Orange telecomm site, these pages showcase both the current winner and the remaining five shortlisted books, with extracts, reviews and biographies for each nominee. Use the links under Prize for Fiction to the right of the screen to find out the latest news and events connected to the prize, read details of past winners, the current shortlist and longlist, plus thumbnail sketches of the judges. Response can be a little slow.

AND THE 2010 WINNER IS ...




Baraba Kingsolver took home the prize on 9th June for The Lacuna, a novel about a man torn between Mexico and the USA. It's Kinsolver's first novel in ten years. Daisy Godwin, the Chair of Judges, said "it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moment of poignancy."

THE 2010 NOMINEES

Rosie Alison The Very Thought of You (Alma Books)

Barbara Kingsolver The Lacuna (Faber and Faber)

Attica Locke Black Water Rising (Serpent's Tail)

Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate)

Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs (Faber and Faber)

Monique Roffrey The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Simon and Schuster)

10 June 2010