Orange prize 2012: Cynthia Ozick installed as favourite to win

Author celebrating her 84th birthday joins previous winner Ann Patchett and Booker winner Anne Enright on six-strong shortlistCynthia Ozick celebrated her 84th birthday on Tuesday and news that her seventh novel, Foreign Bodies, has been shortlisted for the 17th Orange prize for excellence in fiction written by women.She admitted, however, that she would rather people did not dwell on the former.