Lagom till Kvinnodagen offentliggörs den långa listan till the Orange Prize for Fiction. Priset delas endast ut till kvinnliga författare och även juryn är helkvinnlig.
- Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (Quercus) - Swedish; 1st Novel
- On the Floor by Aifric Campbell (Serpent's Tail) - Irish; 3rd Novel
- The Grief of Others by Leah Hager Cohen (The Clerkenwell Press) - American; 4th Novel
- The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue (Picador) - Irish; 7th Novel
- Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Serpent's Tail) - Canadian; 2nd Novel
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) - Irish; 5th Novel
- The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki (Headline Review) - British; 5th Novel
- Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (Quercus) - American; 4th Novel
- Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury) - British; 3rd Novel
- Gillespie and I by Jane Harris (Faber & Faber) - British; 2nd Novel
- The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - British; 2nd Novel
- The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape) - British; 6th Novel
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker) - American; 1st Novel
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) - American; 1st Novel
- Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (Atlantic Books) - American; 7th Novel
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury) - American; 6th Novel
- There but for the by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) - British; 5th Novel
- The Pink Hotel by Anna Stothard (Alma Books) - British; 2nd Novel
- Tides of War by Stella Tillyard (Chatto & Windus) - British; 1st Novel
- The Submission by Amy Waldman (William Heinemann) - American; 1st Novel
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| Karin Altenberg |
För något år sedan antog jag Paperback Lovers Orange Prize-utmaning och läste några tidigare vinnare. Kvaliten var hög och jämn och en av favoriterna är till exempel Larry's Party av Carol Shields.



