The orange prize for new writers also includes Clare Allan, an author who made out of a psychiatric hospital. Clare Allan, who had spent almost a decade in the mental health system, short listed for her debut novel ‘Poppy Shakespeare‘ which is based on her based personnel life and experiences.
Pakistan’s Roopa Farooki and Canadian Karen Connelly are also the nominees for the prize. The awards are to be announced in June. Allan has gained a degree of MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia after leaving hospital. Channel 4 has already secured the rights to Poppy Shakespeare, which also made in to the main list for the Orange Prize for fiction.
Farooki, who was born in Lahore and now lives in London, has been short listed for her debutant novel ‘Bitter Sweets’. She is a graduate from New College; Oxford. Connelly has been nominated for ‘The Lizard Cage’ which revolves around a Burmese protester who is sentenced to military confinement by the country’s government.So, next to you pick books for your personnel library, be sure you check them out!
Source: BBC
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