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		Excellent novel	Other nominees	Comments
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 Jessie Greengrass , Sight Meena Kandasamy , When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife Jesmyn Ward , Sing, Unburied, Sing	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.
2019	Tayari Jones	An American Marriage	Pat Barker , The Silence of the Girls Oyinkan Braithwaite , My Sister, the Serial Killer Anna Burns , Milkman Diana Evans , Ordinary People Madeline Miller , Circe