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Heavyweights vie for book prize

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Share Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck is her first work since winning The Orange Prize in 2007 for Half of a Yellow Sun. Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize last year for his novel... »

Orange nomination for debut novel

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Samantha Harvey is among the nominees for the all-women Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel. »

Author chases Orange prize double

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Novelist Ann Weisgarber, who is already on the Orange prize longlist, is nominated for a new writing prize. »

New novelist up for fiction prize

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First-time novelist Gaynor Arnold is among the longlisted candidates for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction. »

I enjoy the money but not the writing, confesses top author

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Share One of the world’s most respected authors has revealed how he sees writing as a compulsion in a candid interview with the online arts journal The Manchester Review. Fans of Irish novelist Colm Toibin will be able to read the rare interview in the Review’s second edition when it goes live on March 2 at... »

Author Tremain wins Orange prize

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Share Author Rose Tremain has been named as the winner of this year’s Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her tenth novel The Road Home. She won through a shortlist of six writers to take the prize, together with a £30,000 cheque, at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Author Joanna Kavenna won the new writer’s award for... »

Three authors on Orange shortlist

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ShareThree authors have been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Award for new female writers, to be announced on 4 June. US writer Lauren Groff has been chosen for The Monsters of Templeton, about a woman returning to her ancestral home in the wake of a disastrous affair. »

Allen leaves Orange judging panel

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Share Pop star Lily Allen has withdrawn “by mutual consent” from the judging panel of this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction, blaming ill health. “Lily had read extensively for the first stage of the judging process,” said the singer’s spokesperson. However, he continued, she “recently found that she was unable to commit 100% to the role... »

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