What is the Orange award for books?

The list is called the Orange Prize for Fiction’s “50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors”. The prize was originally sponsored by Orange, a telecommunications company. In May 2012, it was announced Orange would be ending its corporate sponsorship of the prize.

What is the Orange prize called now?

the Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction (currently known as the Women’s Prize for Fiction and formerly known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction from 2007 to 2008) is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel …

Who is the first Indian woman to win Booker?

Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize. Her novel Tomb of Sand, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 80-year-old woman after the death of her husband.

Who won the National Book award?

Hell of a BookFiction
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeNonfictionLast Night at the Telegraph ClubYoung People’s LiteratureFloaters: PoemsPoetryWinter in SokchoTranslated Literature
National Book Award/Winners (2021)

Who has won the most Booker prizes?

Jonathan Cape is the imprint with the highest number of winning titles, with eight winners: The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes in 2011, The Gathering by Anne Enright in 2007, Amsterdam by Ian McEwan in 1998, The Famished Road by Ben Okri in 1991, Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner in 1984, Midnight’s Children by …

Who got first Booker award in India?

On 15 May 1952, after the first general elections in independent India, Mavalankar, who was representing Ahmedabad for Congress, was elected the Speaker of the first Lok Sabha. The House carried the proposal with 394 votes, against the opponent’s 55.