2009 Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist
HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS to Preeta Samarasan for being longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. The longlist was announced on Wednesday, May 18, 2009. A six-novel shortlist will be announced on April 21, 2009, and the winner will be declared on June, 3, 2009. Who do you think will make it to the shortlist?There are a couple of established writers on the longlist: Debra Adelaide, Bernadine Evaristo, Allegra Goodman, Samantha Hunt, Michelle de Krester, Deirdre Madden, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Kamila Shamsie, Curtis Sittenfeld and Miriam Toews. And there are six début novelists: Gaynor Arnold, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Samantha Harvey, Gina Oschner, Preeta Samarasan and Ann Weisgarber.
Here are the 20 books that made it to the longlist:
1. The Household Guide to Dying (HarperCollins, 2008) / Debra Adelaide2. Girl in a Blue Dress (Tindal Street Press, 2008) / Gaynor Arnold
3. Their Finest Hour and a Half (Doubleday, 2009) / Lissa Evans
4. Blonde Roots (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Bernadine Evaristo
5. Scottsboro (Picador, 2008) / Ellen Feldman
6. Strange Music (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Laura Fish
7. Love Marriage (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / V.V. Ganeshananthan
8. Intuition (first published by Dial Press in 2006) (Atlantic Books, 2009) / Allegra Goodman
9. The Wilderness (Jonathan Cape/Nan A. Talese, 2009) / Samantha Harvey
10. The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin, 2008/Harvill Secker, 2008) / Samantha Hunt
11. The Lost Dog (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Michelle de Kretser
12. Molly Fox’s Birthday (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Deirdre Madden
13. A Mercy (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Toni Morrison
14. The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (Portobello Books, 2009) / Gina Ochsner
15. Home (Virago, 2008) / Marilynne Robinson
16. Evening is the Whole Day (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Preeta Samarasan
17. Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Kamila Shamsie
18. American Wife (Random House/Doubleday, 2008) / Curtis Sittenfeld
19. The Flying Troutmans (Counterpoint, 2008/Faber & Faber, 2009) / Miriam Toews
20. The Personal History of Rachel DuPree (Macmillan New Writing, 2008) / Ann Weisgarber
The shortlist for the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers will be announced on April 7, 2009
posted by Eric Forbes at 4:49 AM
3 Comments:
Congratulations to Preeta! I hope she makes it to the shortlist, and onwards.
btw that is a lovely cover of Evening is the Whole Day. British publication?
Yes, that's Preeta's British paperback cover.
Michelle de Kretser's The Lost Dog and Marilynne Robinson's Home deserve places on the shortlist!
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