Orange Prize Celebrations

The shortlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction was announced at the London Book Fair on 20 April 2010. Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, the Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates women's writing and is awarded annually for the best full-length novel by a female author published in the UK that year.
This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey

Black Water Rising and The Very Thought of You are debut novels for Locke and Alison. They are up against last year's Man Booker winner, Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel and Barbara Kingsolver have previously had books shortlisted for the prize which is worth £30,000, the winner of which will be announced on Wednesday June 9th.

As part of the prize’s 15th anniversary celebrations, an Orange Prize Youth Panel’s shortlist has also been announced. Recruited via teen website, spinebreakers.co.uk, the shadow panel selected their shortlist of six from the 14 previous winners.
The shortlisted titles are
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The panel has been sharing their judging experience on spinebreakers.co.uk, the site for book loving teenagers. Waterstone's are also asking the public to vote for their favourite Orange Prize winner from the past 14 years at waterstones.com/orange. The vote is open from 7th - 27th May and everyone who votes will be entered into a prize draw.