Women’s Prize for Fiction

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

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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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

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2020

Catalogue search for DominicanaCatalogue search for Girl, woman, other Catalogue search for A thousand shipsCatalogue search for The mirror and the lightCatalogue search for Weather

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Catalogue link for The silence of the girlsCatalogue link for My sister, the serial killerCatalogue link for MilkmanCatalogue link for Ordinary peopleCatalogue link for Circe

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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.

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Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Orange Prize for Fiction

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  • Home Marilynne Robinson Winner

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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.

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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.

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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.

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  • 26a Diana Evans Winner
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