We all love a literary spat. But let’s not forget the books | Alex Clarke
If it's not Callil resigning from the Booker jury, it's Naipaul condemning women writers. All great fun, as long as we separate the debate from the readingIf you are a woman who writes books, or writes about them, or reads them with anything more than ...
Feminism in literature
In the second in our occasional series on the ways in which writers use literature to make political cases, we turn our attention to feminism.Women and literature have hit the headlines over the last week, both for positive reasons – Téa Obreht's v...
‘I don’t feel I’ve earned it’
The author of The Tiger's Wife is, at 25, the youngest person ever to win the prestigious literary award. So why does she have such mixed feelings about the honour?For the first seven years of her life, growing up in Belgrade, Téa Obreht was steeped ...
Does Téa Obreht’s Orange prize signal a return to fabulism?
The Tiger's Wife's use of folklore chimes with a number of other writers' recent work. Is there a trend in the making?Clearly, I wasn't the only one caught on the hop by Téa Obreht's Orange prize win. With odds of 2/1, Emma Donoghue's novel, Room, was...
Orange prize 2011 goes to Téa Obreht
Surprise victory for The Tiger's Wife makes Obreht the award's youngest ever winnerThe winner of this year's Orange prize for fiction is Téa Obreht, a first time novelist and, at 25, the youngest author to take the award in its 16-year history.Belgrad...
Téa Obreht is an exuberant Orange prize winner
The Tiger's Wife weaves together a set of picaresque wartime fables in a dazzling first novelRoom, a novel narrated by a five-year-old boy who has spent his whole life incarcerated with his abducted mother, looked like a very safe bet indeed for this y...
Room tipped for Orange prize
Emma Donoghue's novel is 2/1 favourite to take £30,000 award for women's writingRoom lost out on the Booker to Howard Jacobson's The Finkler Question, but Emma Donoghue's story of a boy and his mother locked in a tiny room for years is emerging as the...
Win the Orange prize shortlist
Competition: Win all six shortlisted novels for this year's award honouring the fiction by women writers – and a smartphone!
Australian ‘Orange prize’ to promote women writers’ status
'Systemic exclusion' prompts plans for prize to 'respect and reward' marginalised authorsA group of Australian women writers and publishers are working to set up an equivalent of the Orange prize in their country, to combat what they describe as "the s...
Orange prize, Oil stories and America’s future
After our European adventures of the last few weeks we return to the English language to look at some of the novels that are emerging as front runners in the new season of literary prizes.We interview Emma Henderson about her novel Grace Williams Says ...
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
This Orange shortlisted debut is poignant but not entirely plausible"Boy or girl?" It's the one question people feel safe asking a new mother, since it can hardly cause offence. But what if the answer isn't straightforward? Even today, in our supposed...
Bidisha’s thought for the day: Joanna Trollope