Women's Prize for Fiction
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previous names: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014-2017), Women's Prize for Fiction (2013), Orange Prize for Fiction (2008-2012), and Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (1996-2008)) is one of the UK's most prestigious literary prizes . It has been awarded annually since 1996 to a female writer for the best English-language novel published in the UK the previous year and is endowed with £ 30,000 (as of 2018).
Originally, the prize was supposed to be awarded with financial help from Mitsubishi in 1994 , but a public controversy about the purpose of the prize caused Mitsubishi to withdraw its support. Since 1996, with financial support from the British telephone company Orange, the prize has been awarded annually by a committee consisting of female and male journalists, critics, agents, publishers, librarians and booksellers. In May 2012, Orange announced that the company would no longer fund the award. In October 2012 the prize was renamed the Women's Prize for Fiction and for 2013 it was funded by private donors. Prominent sponsors included the writers Joanna Trollope and Elizabeth Buchan and the lawyer Cherie Blair . From 2014 to 2017, the literary award was sponsored by the liquor brand Baileys , whose name was added to the award designation .
Since 2018, the prize, combined with a new sponsorship model, has been called the Women's Prize for Fiction again .
Winners and nominees
year | winner | Excellent novel | Other nominees | Comments | supporting documents | |
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1996 | Helen Dunmore |
A Spell of Winter (Eng. The scent of snow ) |
Julia Blackburn , The Book of Color Pagan Kennedy , Spinsters Amy Tan , The Hundred Secret Senses Anne Tyler , Ladder of Years Marianne Wiggins , Eveless Eden |
First award | ||
1997 | Anne Michaels |
Fugitive Pieces (dt. Flight pieces ) |
Margaret Atwood , alias Grace Deirdre Madden , One by One in the Darkness Jane Mendelsohn , I Was Amelia Earhart Annie Proulx , Accordion Crimes Manda Scott , Hen's Teeth |
First award to a non-British author | ||
1998 | Carol Shields |
Larry's Party ( all about Larry ) |
Kirsten Bakis , Lives of the Monster Dogs Pauline Melville , The Ventriloquist's Tale Ann Patchett , The Magician's Assistant Deirdre Purcell , Love Like Hate Adore Anita Shreve , The Weight of Water |
Second Canadian winner | ||
1999 | Suzanne Berne | A Crime in the Neighborhood |
Julia Blackburn , The Leper's Companions Marilyn Bowering , Visible Worlds Jane Hamilton , The Short History of a Prince Barbara Kingsolver , The Poisonwood Bible Toni Morrison , Paradise |
Second time a Julia Blackburn novel was nominated for the award | ||
2000 | Linda Grant | When I Lived in Modern Times |
Judy Budnitz , If I Told You Once Éilís Ní Dhuibhne , The Dancers Dancing Zadie Smith , White Teeth Elizabeth Strout , Amy and Isabelle Rebecca Wells , Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
Second British winner | ||
2001 | Kate Grenville |
The Idea of Perfection (dt. An inkling of perfection ) |
Margaret Atwood , The Blind Assassin Jill Dawson , Fred & Edie Rosina Lippi , Homestead Jane Smiley , Horse Heaven Ali Smith , Hotel World |
Atwood's second nomination | ||
2002 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto |
Anna Burns , No Bones Helen Dunmore , The Siege Maggie Gee , The White Family Chloe Hooper , A Child's Book of True Crime Sarah Waters , Fingersmith |
Dunmore's second nomination | ||
2003 | Valerie Martin | Property |
Anne Donovan , Buddha Da Shena Mackay , Heligoland Carol Shields , Unless Zadie Smith , The Autograph Man Donna Tartt , The Little Friend |
Shield's first nomination since winning the 1998 award and Smith's second nomination | ||
2004 | Andrea Levy |
Small Island (Eng. An English kind of luck ) |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Purple Hibiscus Margaret Atwood , Oryx and Crake Shirley Hazzard , The Great Fire Gillian Slovo , Ice Road Rose Tremain , The Color |
First British female winner since 2000, Atwood's third nomination. Small Island also won the Whitbread Book Award . | ||
2005 | Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk about Kevin |
Joolz Denby , Billie Morgan Jane Gardam , Old Filth (Eng. An Impeccable Man ) Sheri Holman , The Mammoth Cheese Marina Lewycka , A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Maile Meloy , Liars and Saints |
The “Orange of Oranges” award - the best book of the last decade - was given to Andrea Levy for An English Kind of Happiness . | ||
2006 | Zadie Smith |
On Beauty (dt. On Beauty ) |
Nicole Krauss , The History of Love Hilary Mantel , Beyond Black Ali Smith , The Accidental Carrie Tiffany , Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Sarah Waters , The Night Watch |
Zadie Smith's first win after being nominated twice. Ali Smith's and Sarah Waters second nomination. | ||
2007 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Half of a Yellow Sun (dt. Half of a Yellow Sun ) |
Rachel Cusk , Arlington Park Kiran Desai , The Inheritance of Loss Xiaolu Guo , A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Jane Harris , The Observations Anne Tyler , Digging to America |
Adichie's first win after being nominated in 2004, Tyler's second nomination. The prize is renamed the "Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction". | ||
2008 | Rose Tremain |
The Road Home (engl. The long way home ) |
Nancy Huston , Fault Lines Sadie Jones , The Outcast Charlotte Mendelson , When We Were Bad Heather O'Neill , Lullabies for Little Criminals Patricia Wood , Lottery |
Tremain received the award for her 13th novel | ||
2009 | Marilynne Robinson | Home |
Ellen Feldman , Scottsboro Samantha Harvey , The Wilderness Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else Deirdre Madden , Molly Fox's Birthday Kamila Shamsie , Burnt Shadows |
Robinson's third novel in 28 years, Madden's second nomination. Prize is renamed "Orange Prize for Fiction". | ||
2010 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna |
Rosie Alison , The Very Thought of You Attica Locke , Black Water Rising Hilary Mantel , Wolf Hall Lorrie Moore , A Gate at the Stairs Monique Roffey , The White Woman on the Green Bicycle |
Kingsolver's sixth novel was awarded. | ||
2011 | Téa Obdreh |
The Tiger's Wife (dt. The Tiger Woman ) |
Emma Donoghue , Room Aminatta Forna , The Memory of Love Emma Henderson , Grace Williams Says it Loud Nicole Krauss , Great House Kathleen Winter , Annabel |
The award went to Ob Dreh's first novel. At the age of 25, she was the youngest recipient of the award up to this point. | ||
2012 | Madeline Miller |
The Song of Achilles (dt. The Song of Achilles ) |
Esi Edugyan , Half Blood Blues Anne Enright , The Forgotten Waltz Georgina Harding , Painter of Silence Cynthia Ozick , Foreign Bodies Ann Patchett , State of Wonder |
Miller's first work | ||
2013 | AM Homes | May We Be Forgiven |
Maria Semple , Where'd You Go, Bernadette Hilary Mantel , Bring Up the Bodies Barbara Kingsolver , Flight Behavior Kate Atkinson , Life After Life Zadie Smith , NW |
Home's sixth novel was awarded. Prize is renamed Women's Prize for Fiction . | ||
2014 | Eimear McBride |
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing (dt. The girl a half-finished thing ) |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Americanah Hannah Kent , Burial Rites Jhumpa Lahiri , The Lowland Audrey Magee , The Undertaking Donna Tartt , The Goldfinch , dt. Der Delelfink |
McBride wrote the novel in six months. It took nine years to get published in 2013. The prize will be renamed Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction . | ||
2015 | Ali Smith | How to Be Both |
Sarah Waters , The Paying Guests Rachel Cusk , Outline Anne Tyler , A Spool of Blue Thread dt. The bright blue thread Kamila Shamsie , A God in Every Stone Laline Paull , The Bees dt. Die Bienen |
The book won the Costa Book Award in 2014 . | ||
2016 | Lisa McInerney | The Glorious Heresies |
Cynthia Bond , Ruby Anne Enright , The Green Road Elizabeth McKenzie , The Portable Veblen Hannah Rothschild , The Improbability of Love Hanya Yanagihara , A Little Life , dt. A little life |
The Irish writer's debut novel received an award. | ||
2017 | Naomi Alderman | The Power |
Ayòbámi Adébáyò , Stay With Me Linda Grant , The Dark Circle C. E. Morgan , The Sport of Kings Gwendoline Riley , First Love Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
A science fiction novel was awarded for the first time. | ||
2018 | Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire |
Elif Batuman , The Idiot Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock |
The prize was awarded as the "Women's Prize for Fiction" after Baileys withdrew as main sponsor.
Shamsie had previously been nominated for the award in 2009 and 2015. |
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2019 | Tayari Jones | An American Marriage |
Pat Barker , The Silence of the Girls Oyinkan Braithwaite , My Sister, the Serial Killer |
Web links
- womensprizeforfiction.co.uk official website (English)
- Description of the award at Foyles (English)
Single receipts
- ^ Fiona Pryor: Life after Orange Prize success , BBC News. December 28, 2007. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Nigel Reynolds: Small Island voted best Orange prize winner of past decade . In: The Daily Telegraph , April 12, 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Aminatta Forna: Stranger than fiction . In: The Guardian , June 11, 2005. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Entry rules and regulations . Orange. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ What do the winners receive? , womensprizeforfiction.co.uk, accessed April 27, 2018
- ^ Prize history . Orange. Archived from the original on April 25, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
- ^ The Times Summer Books: Stories by Kate Mosse . In: The Times , July 3, 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Benedicte Page: Orange to cease sponsorship of Fiction Prize . In: The Bookseller . May 22, 2012. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
- ^ Robert McCrum: How prize that used to be Orange was saved - and rebranded . In: The Guardian . October 13, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
- ^ Baileys all round at Women's Prize for fiction , The Guardian, June 3, 2013, accessed August 17, 2015.
- ↑ Women's Prize for Fiction Announces New Sponsorship Model for 2018 , womensprizeforfiction.co.uk, accessed June 7, 2017.
- ^ Robert McCrum: The Siege is a novel for now . In: The Guardian , June 10, 2001. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Sue Woodman: Orange is a female color . In: The Nation , July 1, 1996. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
- ↑ Jane Shilling: The Winter Vault By Anne Michaels: review . In: The Daily Telegraph , May 17, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ a b Martin is surprise Orange prize winner , BBC News. June 3, 2003. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin: Tale of everyday mid-life male crisis scoops Orange Prize . In: The Independent , May 20, 1998. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin: `` Disturbing and lyrical 'first novel wins Orange prize . In: The Independent , June 9, 1999. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Maev Kennedy: Orange prize winner rejects claims of plagiarism . In: The Guardian , June 8, 2000. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Fiachre Gibbons: Grant the pick of Orange judges . In: The Guardian , June 6, 2000. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
- ↑ Flachra Gibbons: Sexes clash on Orange prize . In: The Guardian , May 19, 2001. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ John Ezard: Out of the 'gum tree and wombat culture' . In: The Guardian , June 6, 2001. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Helen Brown: It's wrong to sell women literature as aromatherapy . In: The Daily Telegraph , June 13, 2002. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Marianne Brace: Andrea Levy: Notes from a small island . In: The Independent , June 12, 2004. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ John Ezard: Whitbread novel prize is double for Levy . In: The Guardian , January 6, 2005. Retrieved June 7, 2007.
- ^ School murder novel wins Orange Prize . In: Sydney Morning Herald , June 9, 2005. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ John Ezard: Orange prize for Zadie Smith . In: The Guardian , June 7, 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Marie Arana: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Teller of Tales . In: The Washington Post , June 17, 2007. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Elizabeth Grice: Rose Tremain's Orange Prize: 'You can't pretend to be indifferent to prizes…' . In: The Daily Telegraph , June 8, 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ^ Kate Mosse: Noises off: This is a celebration - so cut the whining and just read the books . In: The Independent , June 8, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
- ↑ Mark Brown: Marilynne Robinson wins Orange prize . In: The Guardian , June 3, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Orange Prize for Fiction 2009 shortlist . Orange. Archived from the original on June 5, 2009. Retrieved June 7, 2009.
- ↑ Barbara Kingsolver wins Orange Prize for Fiction , BBC News. June 9, 2010.
- ↑ Claire Armistead: Orange prize shortlist favors debut novelists . In: The Guardian . April 12, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ↑ Orange Prize for Fiction awarded to Tea Obendet . BBC News. June 8, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2011.
- ↑ Mark Brown: Orange prize 2012 shortlist puts Ann Patchett in running for second victory . In: The Guardian . April 17, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
- ↑ Mark Brown: Orange prize for fiction 2012 goes to Madeline Miller . In: The Guardian , Guardian Media Group , May 30, 2012.
- ↑ The winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 is AM Homes for May We Be Forgiven . In: Booktrust . Retrieved June 6, 2013.
- ↑ Irish Eimear McBride wins British literature award for women . In: Tiroler Tagesanzeiger Online . Retrieved March 4, 2020.
- ^ Ali Smith wins Bailey's prize with How to Be Both . In: The Guardian . Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ↑ Announcing the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction winner. ( June 11, 2016 memento on the Internet Archive ) womensprizeforfiction.co.uk, accessed June 11, 2016.
- ↑ Baileys prize goes to 'classic of the future' by Naomi Alderman theguardian.com, accessed on June 8, 2017.
- ↑ Kamila Shamsie wins Women's prize for fiction for 'story of our times' , theguardian.com, accessed June 7, 2018.
- ↑ US Author Tayari Jones Wins 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction , notification on Publishing Perspectives , accessed June 6, 2019.