All Women’s Prize for Fiction Winners ✍🏼👵🏼👩🏾
Women’s Prize for Fiction ✍🏼 All-Time List 1996-2021 👩🏾👵🏼
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is awarded annually for the best full-length novel written in English by a woman of any nationality. The award was established to counter the lack of female representation in other literary prizes. Our list details all the women’s fiction prize winners along with their winning title and nationality.
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| Year | Winning Author 👩🏾 | Title | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Helen Dunmore | A Spell of Winter | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 1997 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| 1998 | Carol Shields | Larry’s Party | 🇺🇸 USA / Canada 🇨🇦 |
| 1999 | Suzanne Berne | A Crime in the Neighborhood | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2000 | Linda Grant | When I Lived in Modern Times | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 2001 | Kate Grenville | The Idea of Perfection | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| 2002 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2003 | Valerie Martin | Property | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2004 | Andrea Levy | Small Island | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 2005 | Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk About Kevin | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2006 | Zadie Smith | On Beauty | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 2007 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| 2008 | Rose Tremain | The Road Home | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 2009 | Marilynne Robinson | Home | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2010 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2011 | Téa Obreht | The Tiger’s Wife | USA / Serbia |
| 2012 | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2013 | A.M. Homes | May We Be Forgiven | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing | 🇬🇧 UK / Ireland 🇮🇪 |
| 2015 | Ali Smith |
How To Be Both | 🇬🇧 UK / Scotland 🏴 |
| 2016 | Lisa McInerney | The Glorious Heresies | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| 2017 | Naomi Alderman | The Power | 🇬🇧 UK |
| 2018 | Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire | 🇵🇰 Pakistan / UK 🇬🇧 |
| 2019 | Tayari Jones | An American Marriage | 🇺🇸 USA |
| 2020 | Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet | 🇬🇧 UK / NI |
| 2021 | Winner announced 16 June 2021 | Longlist announced 10 March 2021 |
The Women’s prize for fiction was sponsored by Orange between 1996 and 2012, Baileys between 2014 and 2017, and currently has a family of sponsors
. There’s a cash prize along with a Bessie – a bronze figure of a standing woman created by Grizel Niven. Longlist and shortlist of novelists for the current year…
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