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American author Marilynne Robinson has won the £30,000 Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel Home (Virago), while Weidenfeld author Francesca Kay picked up the New Writers Award for her novel An Equal Stillness.
At the announcement this evening (3rd June) chair of judges Fi Glover said Home was "A kind, wise, enriching novel, exquisitely crafted. We were unanimously agreed—it is a profound work of art."
Robinson, who has already been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Housekeeping, and won it for Gilead, receives £30,000. She beat the bookies' favourite Ellen Feldman's Scottsboro (Picador), The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (Jonathan Cape), The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt, Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden (Faber) and Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury).