Orange Prize
The fiction prize for women writers has been won by Marilynne Robinson for Home.
But in an interesting ploy, this year the organisers of the Orange Prize offered teen readers the chance to have their say, and the results of this poll were quite different:
The “shadow” panel of teenage judges was set up to help a younger audience engage with the prize. It follows the controversial decision in 2001 to have a shadow male panel of judges for the prize, who criticised the prize’s female judges for their weakness for “worthy books about issues which we found anathema”.
