LONDON (AFP) — Rose Tremain was awarded the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction at a ceremony in London on Wednesday for "The Road Home," about an eastern European immigrant seeking work in Britain.
She beat out five other authors, including three debutants, for the 30,000-pound (38,000-euro, 59,000-dollar) award, open to female authors writing in English whose works were published in Britain in the past year.
The 64-year-old was also awarded a "Bessie," a limited edition bronze figurine, for the novel, her 10th, at the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall.
Tremain was the only nominee who had previously been shortlisted for the prize, having failed to win in 2004.
The other shortlisted entrants were Nancy Huston for "Fault Lines," Sadie Jones with "The Outcast," Charlotte Mendelson for "When We Were Bad," Heather O'Neill with "Lullabies for Little Criminals" and Patricia Wood for "Lottery."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the 2007 prize for her book "Half of a Yellow Sun."
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