Women’s Prize for Fiction

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction honours and celebrates fiction written by women and published in the United Kingdom. It was formerly known as Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Orange Prize for Fiction, established in 1996.

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)
Women's Prize for Fiction (2013)
Orange Prize for Fiction (1996-2012)
Orange Award for New Writers (2005-2010)

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2024 longlist

Hangman Maya Binyam
In Defence of the Act Effie Black
And Then She Fell Alicia Elliott
The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright
The Maiden Kate Foster
Brotherless Night V V Ganeshananthan
Restless Dolly Maunder Kate Grenville
Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad
Soldier Sailor Claire Kilroy
8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster Mirinae Lee
The Blue, Beautiful World Karen Lord
Western Lane Chetna Maroo
Nightbloom Peace Adzo Medie
Ordinary Human Failings Megan Nolan
River East, River West Aube Rey Lescure
A Trace of Sun Pam Williams

2023

Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver Winner
Black butterflies Priscilla Morris
The Marriage portrait Maggie O'Farrell
Pod Laline Paull
Fire rush Jacqueline Crooks
Trespasses Louise Kennedy

2022

The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki Winner
Great Circle Maggie Shipstead
Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason
The Bread the Devil Knead Lisa Allen-Agostini
The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak
The Sentence Louise Erdrich

2021

Piranesi Susanna Clarke Winner
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett
nsettled Ground Claire Fuller
Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House Cherie Jones
No One is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood

Winner of Winners 2020

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with her novel Half of a Yellow Sun was voted 'Winner of Winners' from 25 years of Women's Prize for Fiction winning books

2020

Hamnet Maggie O' Farrell Winner
Dominicana Angie Cruz
Girl, woman, other Bernardino Evaristo
A thousand ships Natalie Haynes
The mirror and the light Hilary Mantel
Weather Jenny Offill

2019

An American Marriage Tayari Jones Winner
The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
Milkman Anna Burns
Ordinary People Diana Evans
Circe Madeline Miller

2018

Home Fire Kamila Shamsie Winner
The Idiot Elif Batuman
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight Jessie Greengrass
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife Meena Kandasamy
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward

2017

The Power Naomi Alderman Winner
Stay With Me Ayobami Adebayo
The Dark Circle Linda Grant
The Sport of Kings C.E. Morgan
First Love Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien

2016

The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerney Winner
Ruby Cynthia Bond
The Green Road Anne Enright
The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie
The Improbability of Love Hannah Rothschild
A Little life Hanya Yanagihara

Best of the Best

In 2005 Small island by Andrea Levy was chosen as the Orange Prize Best of the Best - the best Orange Prize for Fiction winner over the first 10 years that the Prize had been running.

In 2015 Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was named the Best of the Best of the winners of the second decade of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, as chosen by the Chairs of judges of the previous ten years.

2015

How to be both Ali Smith Winner
Outline Rachel Cusk
The bees Laline Paull
A god in every stone Kamila Shamsie
A spool of blue thread Anne Tyler
The paying guests Sarah Waters

2014

A girl is a half-formed thing Eimear McBride Winner
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Burial rites Hannah Kent
The lowland Jhumpa Lahiri
The undertaking Audrey Magee
The goldfinch Donna Tartt