Canadian writers Emma Donoghue (Room, HarperCollins Canada/ Picador) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel, House of Anansi Press/ Jonathan Cape) have been shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction. The award ceremony will take place on June 8 in London, England. Congratulations to the six shortlisted authors!
The Shortlist
Emma Donoghue, Room (Picador)
Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love (Bloomsbury)
Emma Henderson, Grace Williams Says it Loud (Sceptre)
Nicole Krauss, Great House (Viking)
Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Kathleen Winter, Annabel (House of Anansi Press/ Jonathan Cape)
Great news for all Barbara Kingsolver fans: "To celebrate the 2011 shortlist, the Orange Book Store — www.orange.co.uk/bookclub — is giving away 250 free eBooks of The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the 2010 Orange Prize, exclusively to Facebook fans. After the first 250 copies have been won, the Orange Book Store will offer all Facebook fans the chance to purchase The Lacuna at a special 50% discount for one week only, until 18 April. Visit www.facebook.com/orangeprize to enter.
For more information, please visit the Orange Prize website.
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