橘子奖是怎么回事

The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year.

The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the "Bessie" created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven.

The fact that the prize singles out female writers is not uncontroversial. Booker Prize winner (1990) A. S. Byatt has called it a "sexist prize", claiming: "Such a prize was never needed." She has forbidden her publishers to enter her books for the Orange, as allegedly has another Booker winner (1984), Anita Brookner