Writer vies for award (From The Oxford Times)

Writer vies for award

6:21am Friday 18th April 2008 in News

FORMER Oxford author Joanna Kavenna has been shortlisted for this year's Orange Award for new female writers, the winner of which will be announced on June 4.

She was chosen for her novel Inglorious - which was written while she was living in the city - about a successful journalist who walks out of her job and becomes a down-and-out.

Before moving to Cumbria last year, she completed a doctorate at Linacre College and then a writing fellowship at St Antony's College.

Also in line for the £10,000 bursary funded by Arts Council England are US writer Lauren Groff, chosen for The Monsters of Templeton, and Lauren Liebenberg's The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam.