A DEBUT novelist who vividly remembers once picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking "one day", has been shortlisted for the women-only British fiction award for The Wilderness, a portrayal of living with Alzheimer's disease.
Before writing full time, Samantha Harvey taught English in Japan and helped set up an environmental charity, Our Future Planet.
"To be shortlisted is a massive honour for a start," she said after being named on Tuesday. "I'm a bit ignorant about what effect it has. I do have vivid memories of being in a library when I was just starting to write and picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking, 'just one day, just one day'."
Harvey is the only Briton on the list, which includes three Americans - Ellen Feldman, Marilynne Robinson and Samantha Hunt - the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the Irish writer Deirdre Madden.
Source: Guardian News & Media
Copyright © 2008 Fairfax Digital
April 23, 2009
UK: Writer's dream comes a bit closer
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SYDNEY, NSW / The Sydney Morning Herald / Books / April 23, 2009
By Mark Brown
A DEBUT novelist who vividly remembers once picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking "one day", has been shortlisted for the women-only British fiction award for The Wilderness, a portrayal of living with Alzheimer's disease.
Before writing full time, Samantha Harvey taught English in Japan and helped set up an environmental charity, Our Future Planet.
"To be shortlisted is a massive honour for a start," she said after being named on Tuesday. "I'm a bit ignorant about what effect it has. I do have vivid memories of being in a library when I was just starting to write and picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking, 'just one day, just one day'."
Harvey is the only Briton on the list, which includes three Americans - Ellen Feldman, Marilynne Robinson and Samantha Hunt - the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the Irish writer Deirdre Madden.
Source: Guardian News & Media
Copyright © 2008 Fairfax Digital
A DEBUT novelist who vividly remembers once picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking "one day", has been shortlisted for the women-only British fiction award for The Wilderness, a portrayal of living with Alzheimer's disease.
Before writing full time, Samantha Harvey taught English in Japan and helped set up an environmental charity, Our Future Planet.
"To be shortlisted is a massive honour for a start," she said after being named on Tuesday. "I'm a bit ignorant about what effect it has. I do have vivid memories of being in a library when I was just starting to write and picking up a leaflet about the Orange Prize and thinking, 'just one day, just one day'."
Harvey is the only Briton on the list, which includes three Americans - Ellen Feldman, Marilynne Robinson and Samantha Hunt - the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the Irish writer Deirdre Madden.
Source: Guardian News & Media
Copyright © 2008 Fairfax Digital
