Entertainment/Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the Bessie created by artist Grizel Niven.
Previous names of the award –
· Orange Prize for Fiction (1996 – 2006 and 2009 – 2012)
· Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007 – 2008)
· Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (2014 – 2017)
Barbara Kingsolver is the only woman to have won the award twice.
Margaret Atwood has been nominated three times without a win. Hilary Mantel was shortlisted three times without winning.
In 2005, judges named Andrea Levy's Small Island as the "Orange of Oranges", the best novel of the preceding decade.
| 1996 | Helen Dunmore | A Spell of Winter |
| 1997 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces |
| 1998 | Carol Shields | Larry’s Party |
| 1999 | Suzanne Berne | A Crime in the Neighborhood |
| 2000 | Linda Grant | When I Lived in Modern Times |
| 2001 | Kate Grenville | The Idea of Perfection |
| 2002 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
| 2003 | Valerie Martin | Property |
| 2004 | Andrea Levy | Small Island |
| 2005 | Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk About Kevin |
| 2006 | Zadie Smith | On Beauty |
| 2007 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun |
| 2008 | Rose Tremain | The Road Home |
| 2009 | Marilynne Robinson | Home |
| 2010 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna |
| 2011 | Téa Obreht | The Tiger’s Wife |
| 2012 | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles |
| 2013 | A. M. Homes | May We Be Forgiven |
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing |
| 2015 | Ali Smith | How to be Both |
| 2016 | Lisa McInerney | The Glorious Heresies |
| 2017 | Naomi Alderman | The Power |
| 2018 | Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
| 2019 | Tayari Jones | An American Marriage |
| 2020 | Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet |
| 2021 | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi |
| 2022 | Ruth Ozeki | The Book of Form and Emptiness |
| 2023 | Barbara Kingsolver | Demon Copperhead |
| 2024 | V. V. Ganeshananthan | Brotherless Night |
| 2025 | Yael van der Wouden | The Safekeep |
A Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was introduced in 2024
| 2024 | Naomi Klein | Doppelganger |
| 2025 | Rachel Clarke | The Story of a Heart |
