Az egyik legjelentősebb irodalmi elismerés Nagy-Britanniában az Orange-díj. Az idei jelöltek:
Anita Amirrezvani The Blood of Flowers (Headline Review) Iranian/
American (1st Novel)
Stella Duffy The Room of Lost Things (Virago) British (11th Novel)
Jennifer Egan The Keep (Abacus) American (3rd Novel)
Anne Enright The Gathering (Jonathan Cape) Irish (4th Novel)
Linda Grant The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago) British (4th Novel)
Tessa Hadley The Master Bedroom (Jonathan Cape) British (3rd Novel)
Nancy Huston Fault Lines (Atlantic Books) Canadian (11th Novel)
Gail Jones Sorry Harvill (Secker) Australian (3rd Novel)
Sadie Jones The Outcast (Chatto & Windus) British (1st Novel)
Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (Virago) South African (1st Novel)
Charlotte Mendelson When We Were Bad (Picador) British (3rd Novel)
Deborah Moggach In The Dark (Chatto & Windus) British (16th Novel)
Anita Nair Mistress (BlackAmber) Indian (3rd Novel)
Heather O’Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals (Quercus) Canadian (1st Novel)
Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul (Viking) Turkish (7th Novel)
Dalia Sofer The Septembers of Shiraz (Picador) American (1st Novel)
Scarlett Thomas The End of Mr. Y (Canongate) British (7th Novel)
Carol Topolski Monster Love (Fig Tree) British (1st Novel)
Rose Tremain The Road Home (Chatto & Windus) British (10th Novel)
Patricia Wood Lottery (William Heinemann) American (1st Novel)
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/synopses2008.php4
