The American writer Nicole Krauss has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only award specifically for women writers.
Ms Krauss is up for the £30,000 prize for her third book Great House, the follow-up to her international bestseller The History of Love.
Great House, published in Britain in February, follows a collection of characters including an Israeli man estranged from his son since the Yom Kippur War and a Jewish writer who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport.
Ms Krauss, who is married to the acclaimed writer Jonathan Safran Foer, was also shortlisted for the prize in 2006.
