Orange Prize 2009

Marilynne Robinson has won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Home. Fi Glover, chair of judges, called Home, ‘a kind, wise, enriching novel, exquisitely crafted. We were unanimously agreed – it is a profound work of art.’ The other judges were Sarah Churchwell, Kira Cochrane, Martha Lane Fox and Bidisha. This is the fourteenth year of the Orange Prize, which was established in 1996 to ‘celebrate and promote’ fiction written by women. Previous winners include Rose Tremain, Zadie Smith and Lionel Shriver. Robinson is a Granta contributor, her work having appeared in Granta 15, with the essay ‘The Waste Land’.

Francesca Kay won the Orange Award for New Writers for her novel An Equal Stillness.