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Article: FAQ Orange Prize for Fiction A novel idea
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- May 31, 2000
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Let me guess. The winner gets a pound of satsumas.
Actually, no. The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK's largest
annual literary award for a single novel. Sponsored by Orange and
with a judging panel headed by Polly Toynbee, above, the prize is
30,000 pounds and a bronze figurine known as the "Bessie".
And who donates that?
Don't know.
Don't know? You don't know who donates the money?
No-one knows, actually. The GBP 30,000 and the Bessie are
anonymously endowed.
I see. So will my first novel - a hilarious expose of the
newspaper industry and the eccentrics who work within it - be
eligible when I finally write it?
Nope. Only women are eligible for the Orange Prize. It was the
idea of a group ...