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The Orange Prize - 2011
Jun. 8th, 2011 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookgazing
The Orange Prize is the International prize, with a long list made up entirely of novels from female writers and I enjoy reading about it every year. Last year I read as many long listed books as I could. This year, despite thinking that the judges had created a super powered exciting long list (theme parks, tigers, mermaids) and having five of the six short listed books in my house I’ve only read one book off the list.
It seems a shame to mark the first year of ladybusiness with an abscence of Orange Prize commentary, so I thought I’d share some links from other bloggers read through part of the long list. Some of them have been reading along for a few years and I always enjoy following their thoughts. Some are just having a go this year, like intrepid bookish adventurers. All have got plenty to say about this year's short-list
Short list
'Room' - Emma Donoghue
'The Memory of Love' - Aminatta Forna
'Grace Williams Says it Loud' - Emma Henderson
'Great House' - Nicole Krauss
'The Tiger’s Wife' -Téa Obreht
'Annabel' - Kathleen Winter
Bookgazing (the only one I’ve read so far so let's bang my post in here)
dovegreyreader scribbles
And the winner is: ‘The Tiger’s Wife’ - Téa Obreht
