Baileys to sponsor UK Women’s Prize for Fiction
In the UK, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has announced that Baileys will be its new major sponsor. From next year, the prize will be...
Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, has been announced. None of the Australian and New Zealand authors who were...
Stedman, Tiffany, Perkins longlisted for 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Australian authors M L Stedman and Carrie Tiffany and New Zealand author Emily Perkins have been longlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. The longlist for...
Patchett books pulped after Orange Prize error
Bloomsbury UK has pulped 6000 copies of Ann Patchett’s book State of Wonder after copies of the book appeared on bookshelves with the incorrect label ‘Winner of the Orange Prize...
Women’s Prize for Fiction to be privately funded in 2013
In the UK, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, will be funded by individual donors in 2013, ‘while headline sponsorship negotiations for 2014 and beyond...
Apple in talks to sponsor Orange Prize
Apple may be the next sponsor of the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize, reports the Sunday Telegraph. Apple is reported to have participated in...
‘The Song of Achilles’ wins 2012 Orange Prize
American author Madeline Miller has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury). Miller was presented with the £30,000 (approximately A$48,000) prize at...
Orange to cease sponsoring the Orange Prize
In the UK, mobile services company Orange will end its sponsorship of the Women’s Prize for Fiction after the presentation of this year’s award, reports the Bookseller. Orange has sponsored...
Orange Prize 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$46,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by...
Orange Prize 2012 longlist announced
The longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced. The UK Prize, worth £30,000 (approximately A$44,000), is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a...
In Brief
2011 Get Reading! campaign launchedThis year's Get Reading! campaign, which will run until 30 September, was officially launched this week. A new website for the campaign has been launched and features an...
Obreht wins 2011 Orange Prize
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the youngest-ever author to win the...
Obreht wins 2011 Orange Prize
Serbian-American author Téa Obreht has won this year's Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Obreht is the youngest-ever author to win the...
Committee hopes to launch prize for women writers by 2012
Australia could have an equivalent of the Orange Prize by as early as 2012. Sophie Cunningham, former Meanjin editor and spokesperson for the as yet unnamed prize's steering committee, told...
In brief
Hyland, Catton on Orange Prize longlistM J Hyland (This is How, Text) and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (The Rehearsal, A&U) are among the authors on the longlist for this...
De Kretser on Orange ‘youth’ shortlist
Australian author Michelle de Kretser is shortlisted for the Orange Prize Shadow Youth Panel Prize, for her book The Lost Dog (A&U). The youth panel (aged 16 to 19) are...
Adelaide and de Kretser on Orange longlist
Australian authors Debra Adelaide (The Household Guide to Dying, Picador) and Michelle de Kretser (The Lost Dog, A&U) are among the 20 authors longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction...
Tremain wins Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
Rose Tremain's 10th novel The Road Home (Vintage) has won this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$62,000). The novel is about an Eastern European migrant worker who...
Jones on Orange longlist
Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction. Jones, the only Australian on the longlist, has been nominated for Sorry (Vintage)....
‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ wins Orange Prize
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, worth £30,000 (A$67,000), for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperCollins). The novel, which is...