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Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction
Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction
Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year's Orange Prize for Fiction.
Jones, the only Australian on the longlist, has been nominated for Sorry (Vintage). Her work is up against 19 other titles, including Anne Enright's The Gathering (Vintage), which won last year's Man Booker Prize.
The Orange Prize for Fiction is for a novel written by a woman in English, and was first awarded in 1996. It has recently attracted criticism from UK academic John Sutherland and authors Tim Lott and A S Byatt, with Byatt describing the prize as ‘sexist' and saying she refuses to allow her books to be submitted for the prize.
For the full longlist, visit the Orange website
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