Orange Prize Longlist 2011

The Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman, announces the 2011 longlist. Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary this year, the Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing throughout the world.

• Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela  - Sudanese; 3rd Novel
• Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch - British; 10th Novel
• Room by Emma Donoghue - Irish; 7th Novel
• The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi - Indian; 1st Novel
• Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty - British; 6th Novel
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - American; 4th Novel
• The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna - British/Sierra Leonean; 2nd Novel
• The London Train by Tessa Hadley - British; 4th Novel
• Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson - British; 1st Novel
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt - American; 1st Novel
• The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna - British; 2nd Novel
• Great House by Nicole Krauss - American; 3rd Novel
• The Road to Wanting by Wendy Law-Yone - American; 3rd Novel
• The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht - Serbian/American; 1st Novel
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer - American; 1st Novel
• Repeat it Today with Tears by Anne Peile - British; 1st Novel
• Swamplandia! by Karen Russell - American; 1st Novel
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Serpent's Tail) - British/Nigerian; 1st Novel
• The Swimmer by Roma Tearne (Harper Press) - British; 4th Novel
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (Jonathan Cape) - Canadian; 1st Novel

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