The Orange Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in international women’s writing. As we all know, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the prize last year and brought a lot of recognition to Nigeria and Nigerian writers. The events for 2008 are upon us and this evening, I attended the readings of the books shortlisted. This year's entries are quite different from last year's but no less interesting. I enjoyed listening to the writers reading out their work and I'm finding it hard to judge which one will go on to become the eventual winner. The shortlisted writers are as follows:
Nancy Huston - Fault Lines more
Sadie Jones - The Outcast more
Charlotte Mendelson - When We Were Bad more
Heather O’Neill - Lullabies for Little Criminals more
Rose Tremain - The Road Home more
Patricia Wood - Lottery more
For more information, visit the Orange Prize website
I plan to attend the further discussions with the authors tomorrow evening, then I'll decide which of the books I'm going to buy. Hopefully I'll pick the winner! Let me know what you think about the books and the authors.
And third too!
ReplyDeleteHey, I was first... and second
ReplyDeleteI wanna win!!
ReplyDeleteWow, Ill try and get some of these to see for myself
ReplyDeleteI wont lie to you. I haven't read a book in a while except my uni books and some xtian literature. Am dying to go back to my reading days though. Let's know who wins sha.
ReplyDeletehey FG how are you?
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