The Orange Prize for Fiction

 

The Orange Prize for Fiction (also known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction) is a British prize awarded annually for the best original full length English novel authored by a woman of any nationality and published in the UK the previous year.  The prize was launched in 1996 and established to recognise the work of female writers who are often overlooked for other literary prizes.  This was spurred on by the all-male shortlist for the 1991 Man Booker Prize.  The Orange Prize for Fiction is a very prestigious award and rated as one of the three major literary prizes of Britain along with the Man Booker Prize and The Costa Book Awards.  The shortlist for this prize is normally released in June followed shortly by the announcement of the winner.

 

Past Orange Prize Winners:

Year	Author	Title
2009	Marilynne Robinson	Home
2008	Rose Tremain	The Road Home
2007	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Half of a Yellow Sun
2006	Zadie Smith	On Beauty
2005	Lionel Shriver	We Need to Talk about Kevin
2004	Andrea Levy	Small Island
2003	Valerie Martin	Property
2002	Ann Patchett	Bel Canto
2001	Kate Grenville	The Idea of Perfection
2000	Linda Grant	When I Lived in Modern Times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information please visit: www.orangeprize.co.uk

 

 

The Man Booker Prize

 

 

 

 

 

The Man Booker Prize, or Booker Prize for short, is awarded annually for the best full length English novel by an author of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland or Zimbabwe.  It was first awarded to P. H. Newby in 1969 for his book entitled ‘Something to Answer for’.

It is a very prestigious prize and if won it generally equates with great international success, it is even an honour to be included in either or both the longlist and shortlist for the prize.  Beyond the honour and international market success this prize assures it also includes a £50,000 cash prize.  The winner of the prize is normally announced in London’s Guildhall in October.

Related to this prize is another called the Man Booker International Prize awarded biennially to any living author.

For readers, the Man Booker Prize is an indication of a fantastic book.  I would recommend trying any book which has won this prestigious award.

 

Here are the past winners of the Man Booker Prize:

Year	Author	Title	Country
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	UK
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	India
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Ireland
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	India
2005	John Banville	The Sea	Ireland
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	UK
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Australia/Mexico
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Canada
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Australia
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Canada

 

For more information please visit:  www.themanbookerprize.com