Anne Enright's acclaimed novel The Forgotten Waltz (Cape/Vintage) has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.

The shortlist was revealed at the London Book Fair this morning. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on 30th May, with shortlist readings at the Southbank Centre on 29th May.

The full shortlist is as follows:

Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail) Canadian / 2nd Novel

Anne Enright - The Forgotten Waltz (Jonathan Cape) Irish / 5th Novel

Georgina Harding - Painter of Silence (Bloomsbury) British / 3rd Novel

Madeline Miller - The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury) American / 1st Novel

Cynthia Ozick - Foreign Bodies (Atlantic Books) American / 7th Novel

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder (Bloomsbury) American / 6th Novel

The judges for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction are:

• Joanna Trollope, (Chair), Writer
• Lisa Appignanesi, Writer, Novelist and Broadcaster
• Victoria Derbyshire, Journalist and Broadcaster
• Natalie Haynes, Writer and Broadcaster
• Natasha Kaplinsky, Broadcaster

For more information visit the Orange Prize website