... British author Rose Tremain last week was named as the winner of the 13th Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her 10th novel The Road Home (Chatto & Windus). This is a story of an East European immigrant grappling with the challenges of life in London.“The judges felt that this was a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy told with great warmth and humour,” said the chair of the judges Kirsty Lang. And it's highly recommended by some of the Rodney Libraries staff and patrons as well.
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.
This awards ceremony also saw the announcement of the 2008 Orange Broadband Award for New Writers. Established in 2005 as part of the Orange Prize 10th year celebrations, the emphasis of the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers is on emerging talent and the evidence of future potential. This year the winner is Joanna Kavenna for her novel Inglorious (Faber and Faber).
(source Booksellers Brief 5/6/08)
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