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| Author Tremain wins Orange prize | Author Tremain wins Orange prize |
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| Author Rose Tremain has been named as the winner of this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her tenth novel The Road Home. | Author Rose Tremain has been named as the winner of this year's Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her tenth novel The Road Home. |
| She won through a shortlist of six writers to take the prize, together with a £30,000 cheque, at London's Royal Festival Hall. | She won through a shortlist of six writers to take the prize, together with a £30,000 cheque, at London's Royal Festival Hall. |
| Author Joanna Kavenna won the new writer's award for novel Inglorious. | Author Joanna Kavenna won the new writer's award for novel Inglorious. |
| The awards were set up in 1996 to celebrate novels in English by women throughout the world. | The awards were set up in 1996 to celebrate novels in English by women throughout the world. |
| Tremain, 65, who was also shortlisted for the prize in 2004, dedicated the award to Penny Hoare, her editor of more than 30 years. | |
| She said her award added to a series of literary wins for female authors in the past year, including Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize. | |
| "There is a lot to celebrate," proclaimed Tremain to cheers from the audience. ROSE TREMAIN TIMELINE 1943: Born in London1976: First novel, Sadler's Birthday, is published1984: Wins Dylan Thomas Award for four short stories1990: Restoration shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction1999: Wins Whitbread Novel Award for Music and Silence2004: The Colour shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2007: Awarded CBE in the Queen's birthday honours | |
| Her winning novel tells the story of Lev, an Eastern European migrant worker who travels to England to seek a better life for his mother and daughter. | Her winning novel tells the story of Lev, an Eastern European migrant worker who travels to England to seek a better life for his mother and daughter. |
| Chair of judges Kirsty Lang said: "The judges felt that this was a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy told with great warmth and humour." | Chair of judges Kirsty Lang said: "The judges felt that this was a powerfully imagined story and a wonderful feat of emotional empathy told with great warmth and humour." |
| Tremain, whose first novel Sadler's Birthday was published in 1976, has also written a number of radio and television plays including the award winning Temporary Shelter. | Tremain, whose first novel Sadler's Birthday was published in 1976, has also written a number of radio and television plays including the award winning Temporary Shelter. |
| Three debut novelists - Sadie Jones, Heather O'Neill and Patricia Wood - missed out on the award along with Charlotte Mendelson and Nancy Huston. | Three debut novelists - Sadie Jones, Heather O'Neill and Patricia Wood - missed out on the award along with Charlotte Mendelson and Nancy Huston. |
| Previous winners | Previous winners |
| Winning new writer Joanna Kavenna's novel Inglorious tells the tale of a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. | Winning new writer Joanna Kavenna's novel Inglorious tells the tale of a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. |
| Rose Tremain told men to 'stop grumping' | |
| Lauren Groff's The Monsters of Templeton and Lauren Liebenberg's The Voluptuous Delights Of Peanut Butter And Jam were also shortlisted. | Lauren Groff's The Monsters of Templeton and Lauren Liebenberg's The Voluptuous Delights Of Peanut Butter And Jam were also shortlisted. |
| The panel to decide the new writers prize was chaired by Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty. | The panel to decide the new writers prize was chaired by Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty. |
| Previous winners of the main Orange Prize include Zadie Smith's On Beauty and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. | Previous winners of the main Orange Prize include Zadie Smith's On Beauty and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. |
| Last year, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie scooped the prize for her book Half of a Yellow Sun. | Last year, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie scooped the prize for her book Half of a Yellow Sun. |