Short List for Orange Prize Announced

Posted on April 23, 2009

The short list for the Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction will receive �30,000,and a limited edition bronze figurine called Bessie. Both prizes are anonymously endowed.

Here's the 2009 short list:

• Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
• The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
• Home by Marilynne Robinson
• Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie