Allen & Unwin is thrilled at the news that
the 2013 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is A.M. Homes’ May We Be Forgiven, published by Granta
Books.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction,
previously the Orange Prize for Fiction, was set up in 1996 to celebrate
excellence, originality and accessibility in fiction written by women. A.M.
Homes’ win has fallen in the year that the prize is between sponsors; it
has just been announced that Baileys is the new sponsor and the prize is to be
renamed the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction from 2014. Previous winners
include Madeline Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Zadie Smith and Carol Shields.
May We Be Forgiven is a darkly comic and dizzyingly
inventive look at 21st century domestic life – at individual lives
spiralling out of control, bound together by family and history.
It was A.M. Homes’ breakout
novel in New Zealand. On publication in November 2012 it received rave
reviews and was widely embraced by booksellers and readers.
Miranda Richardson, Chair of
Judges, described it as "a dazzling, original, viscerally funny black
comedy - a subversion of the American dream."
To read the
official Women's Prize for Fiction media release, please click here: http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2013/a-m-homes-wins-2013-womens-prize-for-fiction
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