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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)

No woman has won the award more than once, but 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.

{| class="wikitable"
|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''
|}

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 |V. V. Ganeshananthan
 |''Brotherless Night''
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 A Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction was introduced in 2024
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 |Naomi Klein
 |''Doppelganger''
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 |Barbara Kingsolver
 |''Demon Copperhead''
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 ·        Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction (2014 – 2017)
-No woman has won the award more than once, but Margaret Atwood has been nominated three times without a win. Hilary Mantel was shortlisted three times without winning.
+Barbara Kingsolver is the only woman to have won the award twice.
 In 2005, judges named Andrea Levy's ''Small Island'' as the "Orange of Oranges", the best novel of the preceding decade.
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 |Ruth Ozeki
 |''The Book of Form  and Emptiness''
 |}