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8 March 2012

Orange Prize 2012 longlist announced

Ali Smith, Cynthia Ozick and A L Kennedy are among the heavyweights chosen.

By Linda Colley

The judges of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction have announced their 20-book longlist. Here are this year’s nominees (with links to New Statesman reviews where available, and the author’s nationality indicated):

Karin Alternberg, Island of Wings (Quercus, Swedish)
Aifric Campbell, On the Floor (Serpent’s Tail, Irish)
Leah Hager Cohen, The Grief of Others (The Clerkenwell Press, American)
Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter (Picador, Irish)
Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Serpent’s Tail, Canadian)
Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz (Jonathan Cape, Irish)
Roopa Farooki, The Flying Man (Headline, Review British)
Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule (Quercus, American)
Georgina Harding, Painter of Silence (Bloomsbury, British)
Jane Harris, Gillespie & I (Bloomsbury, British)
Francesca Kay, The Translation of the Bones (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, British)
A.L. Kennedy, The Blue Book (Jonathan Cape, British)
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus (Harvill Secker, American)
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury, American)
Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies (Atlantic Books, American)
Ann Pratchett, State of Wonder (Bloomsbury, American)
Ali Smith,There but for the (Hamish Hamilton, British)
Anna Stothard, The Pink Hotel (Alma Books, British)
Stella Tillyard, Tides of War (Chatto & Windus, British)
Amy Waldman, The Submission (William Heinemann, American) (Read Jonathan Derbyshire’s interview with Amy Waldman.)

The judges are Joanna Trollope (Chair), Lisa Appignanesi, Victoria Derbyshire, Natalie Haynes and Natasha Kaplinsky. The list is notable for the presence of some fairly big-hitters, including Ali Smith, Anne Enright, A L Kennedy and the veteran American author Cynthia Ozick. Esi Edugyan, who was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, is also on the list. The shortlist will be announced on 17 April and the prize awarded at a ceremony in London on 30 May.

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