Orange prize for fiction 2001
Jet lag, tea and horrid photos
The Australian writer Kate Grenville won the Orange Prize for Fiction this week for her novel The Idea of Perfection. The award included £30,000 and a bronze figurine. Born in 1950, Grenville is married to a political cartoonist and has two children, aged 11 and 15.
Out of the 'gum tree and wombat culture'
Only last year, the Australian novelist Kate Grenville wrote in desperation that - to get noticed as an author outside her country - she virtually had to wear corks in her hat and call everybody cobber. "Making a living is tough," she grumbled.
'She was not a sunny soul'
The loafer
The future's stilted
If the Orange Prize had existed a century ago...
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Atwood heads the Orange shortlist
Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winner The Blind Assassin is one of six novels shortlisted for this year's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction, it was announced this morning.