Orange (Sur)Prize As if often the case, the U.K.’s Orange Prize honoring fiction by a woman written in English confounded expectations, naming Andrea Levy’s SMALL ISLAND as the winner of the $55,000 award. She beat out favorites “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood and “The Colour” by Rose Tremain, as well as others including National Book Award winner “The Great Fire” by Shirley Hazzard and the praised debut novel “Purple Hibiscus” by young Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Levy was surprised too; she told the BBC, “I was shocked – I didn’t think this would happen. It was a fantastic […]
