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Edinburgh book club wins Penguin / Orange Broadband Readers' Group Prize
London, 28 August 2008: Laura’s Book Group from Edinburgh has won the 2008 Penguin/Orange Broadband Readers’ Group Prize. As part of their prize, the reading group will receive a visit from author Lauren St. John who will lead a reading group session on her book, Rainbow’s End (Penguin).
The Kite Runner voted Reading Group Book of the Year 2008
London, 14 August 2008: For the third year in a row, Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, (Bloomsbury) has been voted as the Reading Group Book of the Year.
Rose Tremain wins the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008
19.15pm, London, 4 June 2008 – British author Rose Tremain has won the thirteenth Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her tenth novel The Road Home (Chatto & Windus).
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Joanna Kavenna wins the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008
19.15pm, London, 4 June 2008 – British debut author Joanna Kavenna has won the 2008 Orange Broadband Award for New Writers with her novel Inglorious (Faber & Faber).
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Sukhraj Kaur Randhawa wins Orange / Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition 2008
London, 19.15pm, 4 June 2008: Midlands based writer Sukhraj Kaur Randhawa has won the seventh Orange/Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Competition 2008.
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Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 shortlist announced
London, 9.30am, 15 April 2008: The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction today announces the 2008 shortlist. Now in its thirteenth year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in international women’s writing.
'We spent a great deal of time in the judging meeting asking the question, "Is this a book you feel passionately about? Is it a book that you might pass onto a friend and urge them to read?"' commented Kirsty Lang, Chair of judges. 'We all felt these six books passed that test.'
She continued, “''m extremely pleased we have three first novels as well as some very established authors on a list that reflects the scope, variety and international breadth of the Orange Prize.'
This year’s shortlist honours both new and well-established writers. Only one author, Rose Tremain, has previously been shortlisted (2004).Orange Broadband Award for New Writers Shortlist announced
London, 08 April 2008: The Orange Broadband Award for New Writers, launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, announces this year’s shortlist.
'This was a very strong year for first fiction,' said Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty and Chair of judges. 'There were so many worthy contenders for our shortlist that it was a huge challenge to settle on a final three. If there are any preconceptions that women’s fiction dwells only on domestic themes, this shortlist will blow them away. These three books are truly ambitious in scope and reflect the international nature of this prize.'
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Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and Award for New Writers events at London's Southbank
Readings and discussions on June 2 & 3 featuring the 2008 shortlisted writers and chairs of judges.
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Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 longlist announced
London, 18 March 2008: The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction announces the 2008 longlist.
'There were lots of big names in contention this year and stiff competition for places on the longlist,' commented Kirsty Lang, Chair of Judges, 'so we were surprised and excited to find so many new voices that fought their way through.
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2008 judges announced
Find out who's judging the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and Award for New Writers in 2008.
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I am Writer in Residence at HMP Low Newton, a women's prison, and intend to run a series of reading workshops based on the Orange Short List, as well as awarding our own 'Orange Prize' for our own winning book. Is there any possibility of obtaining complementary copies of the shortlisted books for this project???
Hi Wendy
email me and I'll see what's possible.
All best
Lisa Gee, website editor
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As a retired lecturer in Drama and Dramaturgy, I can now indulge my passion for reading novels. Rose Tremain's achievement is, in my opinion, unsurpassed. It is a magnificent work of art. I love Thackeray, and among contemporary novelists, Maggie O'Farrell, but Rose Tremain, as winner of the Orange Prize 2008, has written one of the greatest novels it has ever been my joy to read.
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Jun 20th, 2008 at 07:45:42 hrs
Hi Wendy, Last year you sent me copies of all the shortlisted books. I am an English teacher in an inner city school and they come in very useful for some of the older children. Mary Westwood
marjessica
Jun 5th, 2008 at 21:11:36 hrs
The road home is a great book, I took it on a scuba diving holiday and could not put it down, as a result, unfortunately I did not do as much diving as I had planned!
Clair
Oct 24th, 2008 at 13:52:06 hrs
Yes I loved the road home, its a great book, I spd a lot of time re-reading this book and agree with the other commentor's reference to Orwell, a worthy book indeed!
zoe
Oct 30th, 2008 at 11:06:44 hrs
Rose Tremain is a great author for sure, I am not sure that I would agree with the reference to Orwell though. Whats great about Rose is her ability to create such variance between her different works. I also think the topic of The Road Home is quite poignent at the moment. Are ghd going to sponsor literary prizes too then? I think it is great to see private industry taking such an interest in literature and the arts, the more the merrier!
Jessie
Oct 6th, 2008 at 21:28:52 hrs
There are some great titles in for this award. It seems lately you cannot mention books without the subject turning to harry potter or some other "fad book" its good to see companies promoting more serious work.
Sarah T
Oct 8th, 2008 at 13:01:36 hrs
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Sep 7th, 2008 at 14:16:49 hrs
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guyperdersen
Sep 7th, 2008 at 14:18:09 hrs
omg, I absolutely love The Road Home - it is probably my favourite book in years. Echos of Orwell. Orange are one of the few companies with the right image to sponsor this sort of prize, ghd might be another.
szgalbraith
Sep 9th, 2008 at 18:45:36 hrs
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