￡ 30,000 prize is open to books by women in the English language three first-time novelists, including former Sesame Street writer Kathleen winter, have made the this year's Orange Prize for fiction shortlist.Winter's Annabel includes other debut novels, the Tiger's woman of tea Obrecht and grace Williams says it loud by Emma Henderson on the list.
Rooms, Aminatta Forna the memory of love are Emma Donoghue's and great House by Nicole Krauss also candidates.
The ￡ 30,000-prize is open to books in English by women.
Broadcaster of Bettany Hughes, head of the jury, said that the number of first-time novelists on the list of "an indicator of the rude health of the women's writing" is."Compliment to the female imagination, pays the verve and the extent of the storylines", she added.
The this year's winner will be announced in the Royal Festival Hall in London on 8 June.
Annabel tells the story of a hermaphrodite raised as young in a remote part of North East Canada, whose Geheimnis threatens to arise.
Winter, born in Gateshead before he began to Canada, her career for Sesame Street songs and script writing.
Previous winnersO'Donoghue's novel room - told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy in a room with his mother - locked was nominated for last year's Man Booker Prize.
The Irish-American author lives in Ontario, Canada.
The UK is represented by Londoners Forna and Henderson on the list.
The story told by a psychologist, the memory of love England for Sierra Leone, where he leaves strikes up friendships with young surgeons and an elderly patients.
Zadie Smith won the prize with beauty in 2006Grace Williams says it loudly told former English teacher Henderson of a 11-year-old girl in a mental institution, that befriends a boy with epilepsy with.
In great House, New York Krauss writes a series of stories following a Chilean poet, one Israeli antique dealer and a caring man for his dying wife.
The last candidate, the Tiger's wife, follows a young doctor who goes after the death of her grandfather on a journey inspired by his stories.
The this year's judges include BBC Breakfast presenter Susanna Reid and girl with a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier.
Author Barbara Kingsolver, who won the prize with her sixth novel the lacuna, U.S., was last year's recipient of the prize.
Helen Dunmore, Zadie Smith and Rose Tremain are among other previous winners of the prize, which is in operation since 1996.
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