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Lionel Shriver Wins Tenth Orange Prize for Fiction.

PR Newswire Europe, June, 2005

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LONDON, June 7 /PRNewswire/ --

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American author Lionel Shriver has won the tenth Orange Prize for Fiction with her seventh novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail). At a ceremony in central London hosted by Sandi Toksvig, Chair of Judges Jenni Murray, presented the author with the GBP 30,000 prize and the 'Bessie', a limited edition bronze figurine. Both are anonymously endowed.

Jenni Murray, Chair of Judges, said: "We Need to Talk About Kevin is a book that acknowledges what many women worry about ...

 

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