QUIZ Winners
The quiz results are in and from an overwhelming 1900 participants we have chosen the lucky winners through a luck draw. The details of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009’s online quiz winners are below. Congratulations to all the winners !!
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Orange Prize for Fiction - Winner 2009
American author Marilynne Robinson has won the fourteenth Orange Prize for Fiction with her third novel Home (Virago).
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Housekeeping (1981), chosen as one of the Observer’s 100 greatest novels of all time, received the PEN/Hemingway Award for the best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and Gilead (2004) which won the Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has also written two works of non-fiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam, and teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
What is Orange Prize for Fiction?
The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. Now in its 14th year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The Prize was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote 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 in the English language.
The winner of the Prize is presented with £30,000 and a limited edition bronze statue known as ‘The Bessie’.
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