Orange Prize Longlist 2012
ISLAND OF WINGS by Karin Altenberg (Quercus) – Swedish; 1st Novel
ON THE FLOOR by Aifric Campbell (Serpent’s Tail) – Irish; 3rd Novel
THE GRIEF OF OTHERS by Leah Hager Cohen (The Clerkenwell Press) – American; 4th Novel
THE SEALED LETTER by Emma Donoghue (Picador) – Irish; 7th Novel
HALF BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan (Serpent’s Tail) – Canadian; 2nd Novel
THE FORGOTTEN WALTZ by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) – Irish; 5th Novel
THE FLYING MAN by Roopa Farooki (Headline Review) – British; 5th Novel
LORD OF MISRULE by Jaimy Gordon (Quercus) – American; 4th Novel
PAINTER OF SILENCE by Georgina Harding (Bloomsbury) – British; 3rd Novel
GILLESPIE AND I by Jane Harris (Faber & Faber) – British; 2nd Novel
THE TRANSLATION OF THE BONES by Francesca Kay (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) – British; 2nd Novel
THE BLUE BOOK by A.L. Kennedy (Jonathan Cape) – British; 6th Novel
THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker) – American; 1st Novel
THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) – American; 1st Novel
FOREIGN BODIES by Cynthia Ozick (Atlantic Books) – American; 7th Novel
STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury) – American; 6th Novel
THERE BUT FOR THE by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton) – British; 5th Novel
THE PINK HOTEL by Anna Stothard (Alma Books) – British; 2nd Novel
TIDES OF WAR by Stella Tillyard (Chatto & Windus) – British; 1st Novel
THE SUBMISSION by Amy Waldman (William Heinemann) – American; 1st Novel
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