Orange Prize for Fiction 2008

Thanks to The Telegraph for this wonderful, comprehensive summary of the Orange Broadband Prize.

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Now in its thirteenth year, the £30,000 Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing

Tim Lott: 'The Orange Prize is sexist'
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Shortlist 2008
Alex Clark on Lily and the snoots
Mandrake on the Orange Prize

LATEST NEWS
Shortlist 2008 announced
Lily Allen quits as judge
Lily Allen to judge Orange

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS
Carol Topolski
Rose Tremain
Deborah Moggach

SHORTLIST
Nancy Huston Fault Lines

Sadie Jones The Outcast

Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad

Heather O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals

Rose Tremain The Road Home

Patricia Wood Lottery

WINNER
Announced 4 June

JUDGES 2008
Kirsty Lang (Chair),Journalist and broadcaster
Lisa Allardice, Editor of Guardian Review
Philippa Gregory, Novelist
Bel Mooney, Author and journalist

ABOUT THE PRIZE
Orange website

PREVIOUS WINNERS
2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
2006: Zadie Smith: On Beauty
2005: Lionel Shriver: We Need to Talk About Kevin
2004: Andrea Levy: Small Island
2003: Valerie Martin: Property
2002: Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
2001: Kate Grenville: The Idea of Perfection
2000: Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times
1999: Suzanne Berne: A Crime in the Neighbourhood
1998: Carol Shields: Larry's Party
1997: Anne Michaels: Fugitive Pieces
1996: Helen Dunmore: A Spell of Winter

Link to The Telegraph here.