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Caitlin Moran and Mary Beard Join Award Panel for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction

Since
1996, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize
for Fiction, has awarded “excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s
writing from throughout the world.”

The 2014
panel will include three new judges: bestselling author Caitlin Moran (How to Be a Woman), Cambridge classicist
Mary Beard, and BBC journalist Sophie Raworth. The other panelists are crime
novelist Denise Mina (Gods and Beasts)
and Helen Fraser, Chief Executive of Girls’ Day School Trust, a network of female-only
schools.

The winner
of the Women’s Prize, who will receive a £30,000 cash prize and a bronze
sculpture named Bessie, will be announced next summer.


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