Kingsolver Wins 30,000-Pound Orange Prize for Fiction
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Barbara Kingsolver won the Orange Prize for Fiction, receiving 30,000 pounds ($43,700) and a bronze statuette after overcoming competition from Hilary Mantel and four other novelists in the U.K. literary award for women.
The American author was honored during a ceremony this evening at London’s Royal Festival Hall for her novel “The Lacuna” (Faber), which tells the story of a man torn between two nations, Mexico and the U.S., in the middle of the 20th century. Prince Charles’s wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, was on hand to present the award to Kingsolver, who called the moment a “Cinderella day.”