※ 引述《goniker (goniker)》之銘言： Winner: Zadie Smith's On Beauty http://books.guardian.co.uk/orange2006/story/0,,1791649,00.html Zadie Smith wins Orange prize Sarah Crown Tuesday June 6, 2006 Zadie Smith has held off competition from perhaps the strongest Orange shortlist in the prize's history to take this year's award with her third novel, On Beauty. It was third time lucky for Smith, who went into tonight's ceremony as the favourite, having been shortlisted for both of her previous novels, White Teeth in 2001 and The Autograph Man in 2003. On Beauty, a loose, contemporary reworking of EM Forster's Howards End set amid the race, class and gender politics of American academia, was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker prize, but lost out in the end to John Banville's The Sea. The novel sees two families become embroiled in a cultural and personal feud when the son of liberal Rembrandt scholar Howard Belsey falls in love with the beautiful daughter of right-wing icon - and rival Rembrandt scholar - Howard Kipps...... : The shortlist : The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss : Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel : On Beauty by Zadie Smith : The Accidental by Ali Smith : Everyman's Rules For Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany : The Night Watch by Sarah Waters --

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