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Orange Prize longlist success for CPI
Tuesday 20. April 2010 - The Orange Prize for Fiction longlist has been announced - with over half the titles printed by CPI.
Out of 20 titles making it onto the longlist for the prestigious book prize, an impressive haul of eleven were printed in the UK by CPI.
Titles printed and bound by CPI and featuring on the longlist include works published by Faber and Faber, Pan Books, Canongate, Harvill Secker, Headline Review, Chatto and Windus, Granta and Alma Books.
The Prize was set up to celebrate and promote fiction by women throughout the world to the widest range of readers possible and is awarded for the best novel of the year written by a woman in the English language. Celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year, the judging panel is chaired by Daisy Goodwin. She commented: “We have chosen a muscular, original and pleasurable longlist that will appeal to all kinds of readers.”
This years longlist honours both new and well-established writers, featuring seven first novels alongside previous Orange Prize and Orange Best of the Best winner, Andrea Levy, who is longlisted for her fifth novel, The Long Song. Featuring an eyecatching printed paper case specially produced by CPI White Quill using coloured stock, copper foil and embossing, The Long Song was printed and bound by CPI Mackays.