Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 shortlist

Now in its 16th year, The Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, today announces the 2011 shortlist.

• Emma Donoghue (Irish) - Room; Picador; 7th Novel


• Aminatta Forna (British/Sierra Leonean) - The Memory of Love; Bloomsbury; 2nd Novel


• Emma Henderson (British) - Grace Williams Says it Loud; Sceptre; 1st Novel


• Nicole Krauss (American) - Great House; Viking; 3rd Novel


• Téa Obreht (Serbian/American) - The Tiger’s Wife; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 1st Novel


• Kathleen Winter (Canadian) - Annabel; Jonathan Cape; 1st Novel

The judges for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction are: The 2011 judges are Bettany Hughes, (Chair), Liz Calder, Tracy Chevalier, Helen Lederer, Susanna Reid.