
All Women’s Prize for Fiction Winners ✍🏼👵🏼👩🏾
Women’s Prize for Fiction ✍🏼 All-Time List 1996-2023 👩🏾👵🏼
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 👩🏾 | Winning Book Title | Nationality | Shortlist: Name, Book title |
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1996 | Helen Dunmore | A Spell of Winter | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 1996:
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1997 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | 🇨🇦 Canada | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 1997:
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1998 | Carol Shields | Larry’s Party | 🇺🇸 USA / Canada 🇨🇦 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 1998:
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1999 | Suzanne Berne | A Crime in the Neighborhood | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 1999:
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2000 | Linda Grant | When I Lived in Modern Times | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2000:
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2001 | Kate Grenville | The Idea of Perfection | 🇦🇺 Australia | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2001:
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2002 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2002:
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2003 | Valerie Martin | Property | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2003:
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2004 | Andrea Levy | Small Island | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2004:
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2005 | Lionel Shriver | We Need to Talk About Kevin | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2005:
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2006 | Zadie Smith | On Beauty | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2006:
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2007 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Half of a Yellow Sun | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2007:
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2008 | Rose Tremain | The Road Home | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2008:
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2009 | Marilynne Robinson | Home | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2009:
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2010 | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2010:
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2011 | Téa Obreht | The Tiger’s Wife | 🇺🇸 USA / Serbia 🇷🇸 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2011:
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2012 | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2012:
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2013 | A.M. Homes | May We Be Forgiven | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2013:
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2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing | 🇬🇧 UK / Ireland 🇮🇪 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2014:
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2015 | Ali Smith |
How To Be Both | 🇬🇧 UK / Scotland 🏴 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2015:
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2016 | Lisa McInerney | The Glorious Heresies | 🇮🇪 Ireland | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2016:
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2017 | Naomi Alderman | The Power | 🇬🇧 UK | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2017:
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2018 | Kamila Shamsie | Home Fire | 🇵🇰 Pakistan / UK 🇬🇧 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2018:
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2019 | Tayari Jones | An American Marriage | 🇺🇸 USA | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2019:
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2020 | Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet | 🇬🇧 UK / NI | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2020:
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2021 | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | 🇬🇧 UK 🏴 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2021:
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2022 | Ruth Ozeki | The Book of Form and Emptiness | 🇺🇸 USA / Canada 🇨🇦 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2022:
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2023 | Winner TBA 14 Jun 2023 | Winners Prize for Fiction shortlist 2023:
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See also: Booker Prize For Fiction Winners… | Pulitzer Prize Winners List…
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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