Saturday, April 11, 2009

2009 Lists Announced...

The shortlist for the Orange Prize for New Writers 2009 has been announced and includes:
  • An Equal Stillness, by Francesca Kay
  • Miles From Nowhere, by Nami Mun
  • The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, by Ann Weisgarber

Also the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 has been announced and includes:
  • The Household Guide for Dying, by Debra Adelaide
  • Girl in a Blue Dress, by Gaynor Arnold
  • Their Finest Hour and a Half, by Lissa Evans
  • Blonde Roots, by Bernardine Evaristo
  • Scottsboro, by Ellen Feldman
  • Strange Music, by Laura Fish
  • Love Marriage, by V.V. Ganeshananthan
  • Intuition, by Allegra Goodman
  • The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey
  • The Invention of Everything Else, by Samantha Hunt
  • The Lost Dog, by Michelle de Kretser
  • Molly Fox’s Birthday, by Deirdre Madden
  • A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
  • The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight, by Gina Ochsner
  • Home, by Marilynne Robinson
  • Evening is the Whole Day, by Preeta Samarasan
  • Burnt Shadows, by Kamila Shamsie
  • American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
  • The Flying Troutmans, by Miriam Toews
  • The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, by Ann Weisgarber

Look for the shortlist for this prize on April 21st.

2 comments:

Gilion at Rose City Reader said...

The Orange Prize WInners is one of the lists I follow on Rose City Reader. I just posted the lists of winners here.

As with all my Must Read lists, I am happy to add links to progress posts for anyone also working through this list. Just leave a comment on my post with the link address and I will add it.

I have already added a link to this blog. Good luck with it!

Tea said...

Great review, I would like to read this one.