LONDON, England - Canadian writers Emma Donoghue and Kathleen Winter are among six remaining contenders for Britain's Orange Prize for fiction by women, worth about C$47,000.
Making the short list -- announced Tuesday -- is just the latest accolade for the two authors.
Donoghue, who was born in Dublin and now lives in London, Ont., was a Man Booker Prize finalist for "Room," about a small boy and his mother who are kept captive in a garden shed. The book won the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and is a finalist for this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
"Annabel," by the Montreal-based Winter, tells the story of a hermaphrodite growing up in Newfoundland in the 1960s. The novel was nominated for the Writers' Trust, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award.
Rounding out the short list is "Great House" by U.S. writer Nicole Krauss; "The Memory of Love," by Scottish-Sierra Leonean writer Aminatta Forna; "Grace Williams Says it Aloud" by Britain's Emma Henderson; and "The Tiger's Wife," by Belgrade-raised writer Tea Obreht.
A total of 20 writers had made the previously announced long list.
The prize is open to any novel by a woman published in English. The winner will be announced June 8.
