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 

• Brotherless Night V V Ganeshananthan Winner
• The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright
• Restless Dolly Maunder Kate Grenville
• Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad
• Soldier Sailor Claire Kilroy
• River East, River West Aube Rey Lescure

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

Women’s Prize for Fiction

2013

• May we be forgiven A. M. Homes Winner
• Bring up the bodies Hilary Mantel
• Flight behaviour Barbara Kingsolver
• Life after life Kate Atkinson
• NW Zadie Smith
• Where’d you go, Bernadette Maria Semple

Orange Prize for Fiction

2012

• The song of Achilles Madeline Miller Winner
• Half blood blues Esi Edugyan
• The forgotten waltz Anne Enright
• Painter of silence Georgina Harding
• Foreign bodies Cynthia Ozick
• State of wonder Ann Patchett

2011

• The tiger’s wife Téa Obreht Winner

2010

• The lacuna Barbara Kingsolver Winner

2009

• Home Marilynne Robinson Winner

2008

• The road home Rose Tremain Winner

2007

• Half of a yellow sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Winner

In 2015 Half of a Yellow Sun 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.

2006

• On beauty Zadie Smith Winner

2005

• We need to talk about Kevin Lionel Shriver Winner

2004

• Small Island Andrea Levy Winner

In 2005 Small Island 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.

2003

• Property Valerie Martin Winner

2002

• Bel canto Ann Patchett Winner

2001

• The idea of perfection Kate Grenville Winner

2000

• When I lived in modern times Linda Grant Winner

1999

• A crime in the neighborhood Suzanne Berne Winner

1998

• Larry’s party Carol Shields Winner

1997

• Fugitive pieces Anne Michaels Winner

1996

• A spell of winter Helen Dunmore Winner

Orange Award for New Writers

The Orange Award for New Writers ran from 2005 to 2010. Its focus was on emerging talent. All first works of fiction – including novels, short story collections and novellas, written in English by a woman of any age or nationality and published as a book in the United Kingdom – were eligible.

2010

• The boy next door Irene Sabatini Winner

2009

• An equal stillness Francesca Kay Winner

2008

• Inglorious Joanna Kavenna Winner

2007

• The lizard cage Karen Connelly Winner

2006

• Disobedience Naomi Alderman Winner

2005

• 26a Diana Evans Winner