Orange Prize for Fiction: Full 'long' list of nominations
The Orange Prize for Fiction sees Birmingham social worker, Gaynor Arnold, lined up against the American literary heavyweight Toni Morrison for this year's prize.

By Richard Alleyne writing in The Telegraph.18 Mar 2009

Gaynor Arnold (pic left) has been long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel Girl in a Blue Dress

Here is the full list of 20 nominess:

Debra Adelaide: The Household Guide to Dying (HarperCollins), Australian, 4th Novel
Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress (Tindal Street Press), British, 1st Novel
Lissa Evans: Their Finest Hour and a Half (Doubleday), British, 3rd Novel
Bernadine Evaristo: Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton), British, 4th Novel
Ellen Feldman: Scottsboro (Picador), American, 3rd Novel
Laura Fish: Strange Music (Jonathan Cape), British, 2nd Novel
V.V. Ganeshananthan: Love Marriage (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), American, 1st Novel
Allegra Goodman: Intuition (Atlantic Books), American, 6th Novel
Samantha Harvey: The Wilderness (Jonathan Cape), British, 1st Novel
Samantha Hunt: The Invention of Everything Else (HarvillSecker), American, 2nd Novel
Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus), Australian, 3rd Novel
Deirdre Madden: Molly Fox's Birthday (Faber and Faber), Irish, 7th Novel
Toni Morrison: A Mercy (Chatto & Windus), American, 9th Novel
Gina Ochsner: The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (Portobello Books), American, 1st Novel
Marilynne Robinson: Home (Virago), American, 3rd Novel
Preeta Samarasan: Evening is the Whole Day (Fourth Estate), Malaysian, 1st Novel
Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury), Pakistani/British, 5th Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld: American Wife (Doubleday), American, 3rd Novel
Miriam Toews: The Flying Troutmans (Faber and Faber), Canadian, 4th Novel
Ann Weisgarber: The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (Macmillan New Writing), American, 1st Novel

Related Articles in The Telegraph:
· Orange Prize for Fiction: Birmingham social worker takes on Nobel winner
· Review: Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
· Review: Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo

And another account here:

American authors dominate Orange fiction longlist
Mark Brown, arts correspondent writing in The Guardian, Wednesday 18 March 2009

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