Press Release
Virago Title shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction21/04/2009
Virago title Home by Marilynne Robinson was this morning shortlisted for the 14th Annual Orange Prize for Fiction.
The shortlist of six titles, taken from a longlist of 20 was announced this morning at the London Book Fair's English PEN Literary Café.
Home is Robinson’s third Novel and follows Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, gone twenty years – who returns home looking for refuge and to make peace with his past.
No stranger to acclaim, her first novel, Housekeeping received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize while her second novel Gilead went on to win the Pulitzer.
The chair of judges for this year's prize is broadcaster Fi Glover, who said: "We have stretched our heads getting to this shortlist. We were right down to the wire on several of the books and choosing just six was far harder than I had imagined, but we all left the judging room proud of the list we have chosen.
The winner will be announced on 3rd June.
The full shortlist is as follows:
- Scottsboro, Ellen Feldman (Picador)
- The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey (Cape)
- The Invention of Everything Else, Samantha Hunt (Vintage)
- Molly Fox's Birthday, Deirdre Madden (Faber)
- Home, Marilynne Robinson (Virago)
- Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury)