12 June 2008

Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008

Rose Tremain has won the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction or The Road Home.

Joanna Kavenna won the Award for New Writers 2008 for Inglorious.
The other shortlisted authors were Charlotte Mendelson for When We Were Bad; Sadie Jones for The Outcast; Nancy Huston for Fault Lines; Heather O'Neill for Lullabies for Little Criminals; and Patricia Wood for Lottery.

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is awarded to the woman who, in the opinion of the judges, has written the best, eligible full-length novel in English. As well as winning the prize Rose Tremain was awarded a £30,000 cheque.