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Youth Panel to select Orange Prize for Fiction
26 Mar 2010
To celebrate the fifteenth year of the Orange Prize for Fiction, a youth panel are to choose the “best of the best” of the prizewinning books from the past 14 years.
The six teenagers on the panel were recruited through Penguin’s Spinebreakers website, an online book community run by teenagers, for teenagers.
The four girls and two boys selected, all aged between 17 and 18, will read the 14 previous prizewinners and whittle them down to a shortlist of four before meeting to decide on the winner. Last year six other Spinebreakers members were able to offer their perspectives by shadowing the official judging panel and choosing their own shortlist and winner. Interestingly this differed significantly from the official judges’ list.
Set up in 1996, the Orange Prize for Fiction was created to celebrate and promote international fiction by women. The 2010 long list was released on 17 March and the winners will be announced at a ceremony on 9 June.
Read the full story at The Bookseller.
