Orange Prize for Fiction , 2012

The Orange Prize for fiction for the year 2012 has been bagged by a debutant novel, 'The Song of Achilles', penned by American writer, Madeline Miller. The book has the backdrop of Homeric era and narrates a tale of friendship and love.
Here's a glance at the shortlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction:

AUTHOR             NOVEL                   PUBLISHER         COUNTRY        SEQUENCE

Esi Edugyan	Half Blood Blues	Serpent’s Tail	Canadian	2nd Novel
Anne Enright	The Forgotten Waltz	Jonathan Cape	Irish	5th Novel
Georgina Harding	Painter of Silence	Bloomsbury	British	3rd Novel
Madeline Miller	The Song of Achilles	Bloomsbury	American	1st Novel
Cynthia Ozick	Foreign Bodies	Atlantic Books	American	7th Novel
Ann Patchett	State of Wonder	Bloomsbury	American	6th Novel