Orange Award for New Writers 2010
Launched in 2005 in partnership with Arts Council England, the Orange Award for New Writers celebrated emerging female literary talent. All first works of fiction, including novels, short story collections and novellas, written by women of any age or nationality and published as a book in the UK were eligible to enter.The award closed in 2010.
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Winner
The Boy Next Door
SceptreVividly evoking the traumatic history of a nation once brimming with promise, The Boy Next Door tells an engrossing, unpredictable story of love against the odds, and of the shadows cast by the past.
The Boy Next Door
Irene Sabatini
Winner, Orange Award for New Writers
Vividly evoking the traumatic history of a nation once brimming with promise, The Boy Next Door tells an engrossing, unpredictable story of love against the odds, and of the shadows cast by the past.
Publisher: Sceptre
Shortlist
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The Boy Next Door
Sceptre
The Boy Next Door
Irene Sabatini
Shortlisted, Orange Award for New Writers
Vividly evoking the traumatic history of a nation once brimming with promise, The Boy Next Door tells an engrossing, unpredictable story of love against the odds, and of the shadows cast by the past.
Publisher: Sceptre
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The Book of Fires
Harper Press
The Book of Fires
Jane Borodale
Shortlisted, Orange Award for New Writers
A stunning historical novel, The Book of Fires is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel; and love, fireworks and redemption.
Publisher: Harper Press
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
Evie Wyld
Shortlisted, Orange Award for New Writers
A sweet, sun-drenched, heart-felt love affair. Evie Wyld's debut novel slips across hard-edged themes of masculine expression, war, paternal relationships and grief with such beauty and ease that it feels like she is already an old hand.
Publisher: Vintage
Evie WyldEvie Wyld
Award-winning author Evie Wyld was Booktrust's third online writer in residence.
In 2008 she was chosen as one of Granta's New Voices for 2008. Her debut novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice was the winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2009, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional winners (South East Asia and Pacific Best First Book) 2010, and shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2010. In March 2010 she became Booktrust’s third online writer in residence.
She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and Goldsmiths University London, where she concentrated mainly on short stories. Her stories have been published in various magazines and in Goldfish: An Anthology of Writing from Goldsmiths, the National Maritime Museum anthology Sea Stories and in the 3:AM Magazine anthology, London, New York, Paris.
Evie Wyld has lived in South East London for most of her adult life, with frequent trips to Australia, and her family’s sugar cane farm in New South Wales. Much of her writing begins with the landscapes of her childhood, remembering being alone and making up stories from there.
She works in a small independent bookshop in Peckham called Review, and lives in Stockwell.
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