The UK-based prize for fiction by a female author -- best known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, and after that the Women's Prize for Fiction, and for the moment (though who knows, by the time you read this ...) apparently the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction (or WPFF, as they abbreviate it), have announced the jury for the 2014 prize -- and:
There's no timetable as to long- and short-list announcements for the 2014 prize (perhaps they'll do without them ?), just that the prize will be awarded 4 June.
To celebrate the first year of the Baileys sponsorship of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Baileys has commissioned acclaimed portrait photographer, Suki Dhanda, to photograph the 2014 judging panel.I have to say that I am very disappointed that the women aren't all chugging bottles of Bailey's -- what use a drinks-sponsor if there isn't a constant supply at hand ? -- and I'm surprised there aren't a few subtle hints of orange hidden in the picture (as subliminal reminders of the prize's previous incarnations) but ... whatever.
There's no timetable as to long- and short-list announcements for the 2014 prize (perhaps they'll do without them ?), just that the prize will be awarded 4 June.