Angie Willocks, Publicity Manager for MacMillan NZ kindly sent me this bulletin which I pass on for your interest:
Orange New Writers unveiled
24.04.07 Anna Richardson writing in The Bookseller:
24.04.07 Anna Richardson writing in The Bookseller:
The Orange Broadband Award for New Writers revealed its trio of shortlisted titles -
Clare Allan's Poppy Shakespeare (Bloomsbury), Roopa Farooki's Bitter Sweets (Macmillan) and Karen Connelly's The Lizard Cage (Harvill Secker).
The prize, which is in its third year, considers first works of fiction written in English by a woman of any age or nationality, published as a book in the UK, with the emphasis on "emerging talent and the evidence of future potential".
Supported by the Arts Council England, it offers a bursary of £10,000 to the winner.
Chair of judges Jackie Kay said: "We were very impressed with this year's submissions for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers. We admired the breadth, depth, insight and talent of so many of these books and were spoilt for choice and impressed with the state of women's fiction today. We are happy to see women take on such big and serious subjects, both personal and political, with such imaginative panache."
The winner will be announced at the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction award ceremony which takes place on 6th June at the Royal Festival hall. Previous winners are Diana Evans and Naomi Alderman.
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/shortlists.php4
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