Orange Award for New Writers

The Orange Award for New Writers was a prize given by telecommunications company Orange between 2006 and 2010. It was launched to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Orange Prize for Fiction.[1] The award was supported by Arts Council England and was accompanied by a bursary of £10,000.[2] It was open to any female authors who had written their debut novel in the English language.[3]

Orange Award for New Writers
LocationUnited Kingdom
Presented byOrange
First awarded2006
Last awarded2010
WebsiteWebsite

Winners and shortlisted nominees
Year Winner Work Shortlisted nominees and works Ref (s)
2005 Diana Evans 26a Nell Freudenberger – Lucky Girls
Meg Rosoff – How I Live Now		 [3]
2006 Naomi Alderman Disobedience Olga Grushin – The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Yiyun Li – A Thousand Years of Good Prayers		 [4]
2007 Karen Connelly The Lizard Cage Clare Allan – Poppy Shakespeare
Roopa Farooki – Bitter Sweets		 [5]
2008 Joanna Kavenna Inglorious Lauren Groff – The Monsters of Templeton
Lauren Liebenberg – The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam		 [5]
2009 Francesca Kay An Equal Stillness Nami Mun – Miles From Nowhere
Ann Weisgarber – The Personal History of Rachel DuPree		 [6]
2010 Irene Sabatini The Boy Next Door Jane Borodale – The Book Of Fires
Evie Wyld – After The Fire, A Still Small Voice		 [7]

References
  1. "Orange Prize for New Writers – archive". Orange. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  2. Page, Benedicte (14 October 2010). "Orange ditches Award for New Writers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  3. "Orange launches new writers prize". BBC News. 25 April 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  4. Adams, Stephen (7 December 2009). "Former teacher wins £15,000 short story prize". Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  5. Dammann, Guy (5 June 2008). "Inglorious triumph in first novel award". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  6. Pressley, James (3 June 2009). "Marilynne Robinson Wins 30,000-Pound Orange Prize for Fiction". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  7. Pressley, James (9 June 2010). "Kingsolver Wins 30,000-Pound Orange Prize for Fiction". Bloomberg. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
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