What is the Orange Book Award?

The Orange Prize for Fiction (currently known as the Women’s Prize for Fiction and formerly known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction from 2007 to 2008) is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel …

Which novel won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction?

about the Biafra war
Orange prize 2007 | Special Reports | guardian.co.uk Books. Her epic novel about the Biafra war won Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the Orange prize.

Who won the Orange Prize 2010?

Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver Wins Orange Prize.

Who won the first Booker Prize for India?

Arundhati Roy
Share: Arundhati Roy won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Two other Indian-origin authors had won it before her – Salman Rushdie’s second novel, Midnight’s Children won in 1981 and Sir V.S.

When did the Orange Prize for Fiction start?

The Orange Prize for Fiction (currently known as the Women’s Prize for Fiction and formerly known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction from 2007 to 2008) is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and

Who are the sponsors of the Orange Prize?

The prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. Currently the prize is funded privately, while negotiations are concluded with the new long-term sponsor, to be announced in advance of the 2013 Prize ceremony later this year.

Are there any women who have won the Orange Prize?

In 2008, writer Tim Lott called the award “a sexist con-trick” and said, “the Orange Prize is sexist and discriminatory, and it should be shunned”. No woman has won the award more than once but Margaret Atwood has been nominated three times without a win.

Which is the best Orange of oranges book?

In 2005, judges named Andrea Levy’s Small Island as the “Orange of Oranges”, the best novel of the preceding decade. saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again.