Rose Tremain Wins 2008 Orange Prize
by Ryan McBride - Thursday Jun 05 2008 9:20 am
Posted in: Awards

Rose Tremain has won this year's Orange Prize for her novel The Road Home.

Although Tremain is one of Britain's most celebrated novelists, she has never won a major literary prize until now.

In an interview with the Guardian, she said

I was a bit upset not to have been longlisted for the Man Booker. In this country, prizes are like bumps in the road, sleeping policemen. You can't pretend they are not there, and anyone who says they don't care about them is being disingenuous. So to have won one of the major prizes feels great.

For the 2008 shortlist, click here.

For a list of previous Orange Prize winners, click here.

For the complete story in The Guardian, click here.

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