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Rose Tremain wins 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
The judges for the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction are:
Kirsty Lang (Chair), Journalist & BroadcasterLisa Allardice, Editor of Guardian Review
Philippa Gregory, Novelist
Bel Mooney, Novelist, Journalist & Children's Author
find out more about Rose Tremain and The Road Home
Previous winners of the Orange Prize are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun (2007), Zadie Smith for On Beauty (2006), Lionel Shriver for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2005), Andrea Levy for Small Island (2004), Valerie Martin for Property (2003), Ann Patchett for Bel Canto (2002), Kate Grenville for The Idea of Perfection (2001), Linda Grant for When I Lived in Modern Times (2000), Suzanne Berne for A Crime in the Neighbourhood (1999), Carol Shields for Larry’s Party (1998), Anne Michaels for Fugitive Pieces (1997), and Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter (1996). -
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).
t an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, hosted by Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Co-Founder and Honorary Director, Kate Mosse, the 2008 Chair of Judges, Kirsty Lang, presented the author with the £30,000 prize and the ‘Bessie’, a limited edition bronze figurine. Both are anonymously endowed.
Kirsty Lang, Chair of Judges, said: “The judges felt that this was a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy told with great warmth and humour.”
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction written by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible. The Orange Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.
The 2008 award ceremony took place in The Ballroom of the Royal Festival Hall. Guests toasted the announcement of the winner at a champagne drinks reception courtesy of Taittinger.
