Orange Prize for Fiction - 2012 Winner

The Song of Achilles by American author Madeline Miller has won the Orange Prize for Fiction this year, £30,000 and the ‘Bessie’- a limited edition bronze figurine, presented at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

'Joanna Trollope, Chair of Judges, said: “This is a more than worthy winner — original, passionate, inventive and uplifting. Homer would be proud of her.”

The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in 1996 to celebrate and promote fiction written by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible. The Orange Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English by a woman.'  Read more at http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/prize.html

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, 2011

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