The Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction) launched in 1996 and is the UK’s most prestigious literary award celebrating talented female writers. I’ve discovered some brilliant books from the prize longlists as well as new authors.
Here is the complete Women’s Prize for Fiction winners list:
1999 Winner
Title: A Crime in the Neighbourhood
Author: Suzanne Berne
Pub Date: 28th May 1998
2000 Winner
Title: When I Lived in Modern Times
Author: Linda Grant
Pub Date: 9th October 2000
2001 Winner
Title: The Idea of Perfection
Author: Kate Grenville
Pub Date: January 1999
2002 Winner
Title: Bel Canto
Author: Ann Patchett
Pub Date: January 2001
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2003 Winner
Title: Property
Author: Valerie Martin
Pub Date: February 2003
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2004 Winner
Title: Small Island
Author: Andrea Levy
Pub Date: 2nd February 2004
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2005 Winner
Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Author: Lionel Shriver
Pub Date: 14th April 2003
2007 Winners
Title: Half of a Yellow Sun
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pub Date: 12th September 2006
2012 Winner
Title: The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller
Pub Date: 20th September 2011
2013 Winner
Title: May We Be Forgiven
Author: A. M. Homes
Pub Date: 1st September 2012
2014 Winner
Title: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Author: Eimear McBride
Pub Date: 17th June 2013
2016 Winner
Title: The Glorious Heresies
Author: Lisa McInerney
Pub Date: 9th April 2015
2019 Winner
Title: An American Marriage
Author: Tayari Jones
Pub Date: 19th March 2018
2022 Winner
Title: The Book of Form and Emptiness
Author: Ruth Ozeki
Pub Date: 21st September 2021
2023 Winner
Title: Demon Copperhead
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Pub Date: 18th October 2022
2024 Winner
Title: Brotherless Night
Author: V. V. Ganeshananthan
Pub Date: 3rd January 2023
