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 Youth Panel 2009 



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 Top left: Francis Gene-Rowe, Joe Kerridge, Max Elsworth.
From bottom left: Kate Mosse, Lily Dessau, Rossana Duarte, Clarissa Pabi

The Youth Panel selected through Spinebreakers last year were tasked with reading the same list of books as the official judges for the prize. The shadow panel read the 20 books longlisted for the 2009 Orange Prize, met to choose their shortlist of six and again to choose their overall winner.

The meeting was facilitated by Kate Mosse, author and Honorary Director of the Orange Prize. The panel also shared their experiences of judging a book prize publicly in the Spinebreakers forum.

On the eve of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction awards ceremony, the six members of the Orange Prize youth panel chose Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton) as their overall winner and were featured in the national press.

Click here for more info about last year's youth panel.
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