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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Orange prize shortlist goes for the big names |
 | | It is traditionally the prize that brings writers from the fringes into the limelight, but three literary big-hitters dominate the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist, announced today. |
 | | The triumvirate of Donna Tartt, who shot to worldwide fame with her debut novel The Secret History, Zadie Smith, another novelist who struck gold first time with White Teeth, and the grand dame of Canadian letters, Carol Shields, are the favourites for the £30,000 award, which is for women writers only. |
 | | We made a conscious decision that we would not let the fact that they were written by big names count against them. |
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