American author Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel The Lacuna (Faber and Faber). Daisy Goodwin, Chair of Judges, who announced the winning author at the ceremony, said: “We had very different tastes on the panel, but in the end we went for passion not compromise. We chose The Lacuna because it is a book of breathtaking scale and shattering moments of poignancy.”
http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/show/feature/orange-2010-news-winner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8730935.stm
