Three Asian novelists works have been nominated to longlist of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009.These are:
Preeta Samarasan for Evening is the Whole Day
Kamila Shamsie for Burnt Shadows
V V Ganeshananthan for Love Marriage
The longlist has 20 titles. The Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist shortlist will be announced on 21 April 2009 and the winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on 3 June.
The Orange Prize for Fiction, is the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a woman. The panel of judges for 2009 awards was announced on 17 March 2009. The Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 judges will be chaired by broadcaster Fi Glover, who will be joined by writer, novelist and broadcaster Bidisha, journalist and academic Sarah Churchwell, journalist and novelist Kira Cochrane and entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox.
The other writers in the long list are Toni Morrison (A Mercy) Debra Adelaide (The Household Guide to Dying), Gaynor Arnold (Girl in a Blue Dress), Lissa Evans (Their Finest Hour and a Half), Bernardine Evaristo (Blonde Roots), Ellen Feldman (Scottsboro), Laura Fish (Strange Music), Allegra Goodman (Intuition), Samantha Harvey (The Wilderness), Samantha Hunt (The Invention of Everything Else), Michelle de Kretser (The Lost Dog), Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday), Gina Ochsner (The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight), Marilynne Robinson (Home), Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife), Miriam Toews (The Flying Troutmans) and Ann Weisgarber (The Personal History of Rachel DuPree).
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