Orange Prize for Fiction in the UK: first step

December 11, 2009 - Now in its fifteenth year, the Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman, celebrating excellence, innovation and accessibility and the best of outstanding international fiction in women’s writing.
The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote international fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman. Any woman writing in English – whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter – is eligible.

The winner will receive a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven.





Yesterday, the judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 have been confirmed as:
Daisy Goodwin (Chair), Author and TV Producer
Baroness Neuberger DBE, Rabbi, Author and Broadcaster
Michèle Roberts, Novelist and Critic
Miranda Sawyer, Journalist and Broadcaster
Alexandra Shulman, Editor of British Vogue

calendar
shortlist Announcement: 20 April 2010
awards Ceremony: 9 June 2010

Orange and books
The Orange Prize for Fiction further strengthens Orange's commitment in the world of books.
Indeed, this year in France Orange has launched a literary award for internet users, the Orange Book Award or Prix Orange du Livre, presided over by the French writer Erik Orsenna. On a large scale for the first time, internet users are invited to take part in the jury and award a literary prize.
Created in 2006, the Prix Clara, organized by the French editor Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson, rewards the winners of a major competition for new writers open to adolescents under 17. Orange has been supporting the Prix Clara since 2007 by communicating on it and creating specific animations on zapzone.fr (dedicated Orange internet and mobile portal for adolescents).
Lastly, the Orange Foundation, which has been working for over 20 years on health, disability, education and culture, has carried out various actions in order to make reading more accessible, for instance for the visually impaired in France.

find out more
Orange Prize for Fiction website
Prix Orange du Livre website (in French)
Orange Foundation