Wolf Hall's limelight gets a hint of Orange
The Age
Friday March 19, 2010
HILARY Mantel looks set to continue her dream run with literary prizes when Wolf Hall, her brilliant re-creation of political life in the Tudor court of Henry VIII that won last year's Man Booker, was yesterday named on the long list for the Orange Prize for fiction by women. Last week Mantel won the US National Book Critics Circle Prize for fiction.Also on the 20-book list for the British prize is M. J. Hyland's This Is How, the formerly Melbourne-based writer's acclaimed novel about how a young man commits murder and ends up in prison.There are seven first novels on the list, as well as recent works by the likes of Barbara Kingsolver, Lorrie Moore, Sarah Waters and Andrea Levy, whose previous novel, Small Island, not only won the Orange Prize but also the Best of the Orange winners title.The full longlist is: Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You; Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal; Clare Clark, Savage Lands; Amanda Craig, Hearts and Minds; Roopa Farooki, The Way Things Look to Me; Rebecca Gowers, The Twisted Heart; M. J. Hyland, This Is How; Sadie Jones, Small Wars; Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna; Laila Lalami, Secret Son; Andrea Levy, The Long Song; Attica Locke, Black Water Rising; Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall; Maria McCann, The Wilding; Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy; Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs; Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle; Amy Sackville, The Still Point; Kathryn Stockett, The Help; and Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger.The prize is worth 30,000 ($A50,000) to the winner.The shortlist will be announced next month and the winner on June 9.
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