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The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction was awarded at the Royal Festival Hall in London to Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her novel Half of a Yellow Sun (Call No.: English ADI).

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is a £30,000 women-only award and Adichie is the youngest winner so far at 29 years old. Half of a Yellow Sun is her second novel. Her first novel Purple Hibiscus (Call No.: English ADI) was also shortlisted for the 2004 award - though it was known as the Orange Prize for Fiction then.

Other shortlisted novels were
- Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park (Call No.: English CUS);
- Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (Call No.: English DES);
- Guo Xiaolu’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Call No.: English GUO);
- Jane Harris’ The Observations (Call No.: English HAR); and
- Anne Tyler’s Digging to America (Call No: English TYL).

Karen Connelly was awarded the Orange Broadband Award for New Authors for her novel The Lizard Cage (Call No.: English CON). Connelly won £10,000. Other nominees were Clare Allan’s Poppy Shakespeare and Roopa Farooki’s Bitter Sweets.

(via BBC News)

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