Monday, March 15, 2004

Author Ali on women's prize list

Monica AliBBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts: "Margaret Atwood, Monica Ali and Toni Morrison are among the authors who have made the longlist of this year's Orange Prize for Fiction. The women-only £30,000 prize was set up nine years ago to promote and celebrate women's writing.

The shortlist will be announced on 27 April followed by the winner on 8 June. There are six debut novelists on the list - Monica Ali, Rupa Bajwa, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dinah Lee Kung, Joan London, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Audrey Niffenegger.

And six authors have been on the longlist before - Margaret Atwood, Maggie Gee, Stevie Davies, Toni Morrison, Andrea Levy and Anne Tyler."

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