The Orange Prize for Fiction is the United Kingdom’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary in 2011, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. Two of the six finalists—GREAT HOUSE by Nicole Krauss and ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter—are Recorded Books exclusives.
NETHERLAND by Joseph O’Neill heads a an eight-strong shortlist for the world’s richest literary award, the €100,000 (£88,000) Impac prize. Selected from a longlist of 156 titles nominated by public libraries around the world, he is joined by American Marilynne Robinson and the British writers Robert Edric, Ross Raisin and Zoë Heller. After the traditional cull of esteemed names, with writers such as Philp Roth, Salman Rushdie and José Saramago falling at the longlist stage, the rest of the shortlist is made up of novels in translation.
Hmmm, I’ve been trying to get an audio version of Annabel, but when I search for it in the RB website it does not come up under the title or the author’s name. Is it available? I have been reading Orange Prize finalists since they announced the long lise and would love to read all of the short listed books.
Actually, I just found it in the Coming Soon list.