Orange Prize for Fiction

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The Orange Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1996, is awarded to the woman who has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English. The aim of the prize is not only to celebrate novels of excellence, originality and accessibility but also to promote women writers to as wide a range of readers as possible.

The Orange Prize was set up as it was thought the considerable achievements of women novelists were often passed over by the major literary prizes.

The prize is run by a management committee, administered by Booktrust and sponsored by Orange. The annual prize money of £30,000 is anonymously endowed.

To find out more about the Orange Prize for Fiction, please visit their website at:

From the Library catalogue

The following link will take you directly into the library catalogue. Once in the catalogue you will see a link in the Recommended Reading box to a list of previous winners for this award. If you wish to reserve an item in the catalogue you will need to first log in as a library member using your User ID and PIN.

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