Jun 04 2008
Rose Tremain wins Orange Prize
I’ve been writing about the Orange Prize for fiction quite a bit lately, but here’s one more piece of news: the prize has found its winner.
Rose Tremain took home the £30,000 prize for her novel The Road Home. Tremain was actually the predicted favourite to win - only the second time that has happened in the Orange Prize’s history. The novel tells the story of an immigrant from eastern Europe who moves to England in search of a better life. According to an article in The Independent, Orange Prize jury chair Kirsty Lang praised Tremain’s novel for its empathy and explained that it won because “. . . she managed to get inside the head of an eastern European migrant coming to England.”
Tremain, a British author, is no stranger to accolades - or even this prize. Her novel The Colour was shortlisted for the prize in 2004, while another novel Restoration was on the shortlist for the 1989 Booker Prize. Other awards she has won are the Whitbread Novel of the Year award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger.
Source:
The Independent
