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Orange Prize 2009
Laura Fish longlisted for this year's Orange Prize
Laura Fish's novel 'Strange Music' has been longlisted for this year's award.
The longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 was announced on 17th March.
'Strange Music', set in 1837, intertwines the stories of the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in Torquay, the Creole maidservant Kaydia on the Barrett estate in Jamaica, and former slave Sheba.
Dr Fish is an RCUK Fellow in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University.
The Orange prize celebrates and promotes fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language. Any woman writing in English, whatever her nationality, country of residence, age or subject matter, is eligible. The winner will receive a cheque for £30,000. Previous winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver.
The judging panel will name a six-novel shortlist next month and the winner will be announced in June.
Published: 19th March 2009