Shriver’s Orange Triumph Lionel Shriver gets press all over for winning the 10th Orange Prize for fiction by a woman, for her novel WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. She comments: “On some kind of sneaky, subterranean level, I thought I was going to win. I have been very ambitious from the start on this prize. I wanted it. I wanted it badly.” The selection is touted as a victory for smaller publishers; Serpent’s Tail is her UK publisher, and Perseus’s Counterpoint published the book in the US. BBC Runaway Book Proposal Lloyd Grove says: “Fresh from copping a plea […]
