Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced

Posted on April 17, 2011

The shortlist for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The annual award is the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. This year's shortlist honors both new and well-established writers. It features three first novels and one previously shortlisted author; Nicole Krauss (2006). Here is the list:

Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room (Picador) 7th Novel
Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury) 2nd Novel
Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud (Sceptre) 1st Novel
Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House (Viking) 3rd Novel
Tea Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) 1st Novel
Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel (Jonathan Cape) 1st Novel

The judges for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction are:

Bettany Hughes, (Chair), Broadcaster, Historian and Author
Liz Calder, founder-director of Bloomsbury Publishing and Full Circle Editions
Tracy Chevalier, Novelist
Helen Lederer, Actress and Writer
Susanna Reid, Journalist and Broadcaster