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