American Lionel Shriver won the £30,000 ($54,930) Orange Prize for Fiction, “one of the most prestigious awards for female novelists in English,” last night in London, according to a Reuters wire story. Shriver won for her book, We Need to Talk About Kevin, “a story about a teenage mass murderer.” The Prize was also seen as somewhat of an award for the publisher, Serpent’s Tail, “a small outfit which has been causing a buzz in the literary world for its ability to sign critically acclaimed writers such as Shriver and Joolz Denby, who was shortlisted for the Orange prize for her murder story Billie Morgan.”