Women's Prize for Fiction Winners: Complete List by Year

31 winning results from 1996 to 2026, plus 155 recorded shortlist and finalist results. Explore the chronological list and follow the links to authors, available book guides and other winners from the same year.

Country: United Kingdom
Founded: 1996
Frequency: Annual
Prize: £30,000
Official website: Visit site

Celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women throughout the world. Previously known as the Orange Prize.

Winners by year

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	The Correspondent Virginia Evans	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2025	The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2024	Brotherless Night V. V. Ganeshananthan	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2023	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2022	The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2021	Piranesi Susanna Clarke	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2020	Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2019	An American Marriage Tayari Jones	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2018	Home Fire Kamila Shamsie	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2017	The Power Naomi Alderman	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2016	The Glorious Heresies Lisa McInerney	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2015	How to Be Both Ali Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2014	A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2013	May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2012	The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2011	The Tiger's Wife Téa Obreht	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2010	The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2009	Home Marilynne Robinson	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2008	The Road Home Rose Tremain	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2007	Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2006	On Beauty Zadie Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2005	We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2004	Small Island Andrea Levy	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2003	Property Valerie Martin	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2002	Bel Canto Ann Patchett	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2001	The Idea of Perfection Kate Grenville	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
2000	When I Lived in Modern Times Linda Grant	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
1999	A Crime in the Neighborhood Suzanne Berne	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
1998	Larry's Party Carol Shields	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
1997	Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource
1996	A Spell of Winter Helen Dunmore	Women's Prize for Fiction	winnerSource

Shortlists and finalists

These books reached a shortlist or final round. They are not counted as winners. Coverage depends on the published historical record.

Year	Book / recipient	Award	Result
2026	Dominion Addie E Citchens	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	Heart the Lover Lily King	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	The Mercy Step Marcia Hutchinson	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	Kingfisher Rozie Kelly	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2026	Flashlight Susan Choi	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Good Girl Aria Aber	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Tell Me Everything Elizabeth Strout	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	All Fours Miranda July	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	Fundamentally Nussaibah Younis	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2025	The Persians Sanam Mahloudji	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	The Wren, The Wren Anne Enright	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	River East, River West Aube Rey Lescure	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Soldier Sailor Claire Kilroy	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2024	Restless Dolly Maunder Kate Grenville	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Fire Rush Jacqueline Crooks	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Pod Laline Paull	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Trespasses Louise Kennedy	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2023	Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	The Bread the Devil Knead Lisa Allen-Agostini	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	The Sentence Louise Erdrich	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	Great Circle Maggie Shipstead	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2022	Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House Cherie Jones	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	Unsettled Ground Claire Fuller	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2021	Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	Dominicana Angie Cruz	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	The Mirror & the Light Hilary Mantel	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	Weather Jenny Offill	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2020	A Thousand Ships Natalie Haynes	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Milkman Anna Burns	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Ordinary People Diana Evans	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	Circe Madeline Miller	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2019	The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	The Idiot Elif Batuman	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock Imogen Hermes Gowar	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	Sight Jessie Greengrass	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2018	When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife Meena Kandasamy	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	Stay With Me Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	The Sport of Kings C. E. Morgan	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	First Love Gwendoline Riley	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	The Dark Circle Linda Grant	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2017	Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	The Green Road Anne Enright	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	Ruby Cynthia Bond	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	The Portable Veblen Elizabeth McKenzie	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	The Improbability of Love Hannah Rothschild	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2016	A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	A God in Every Stone Kamila Shamsie	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	The Bees Laline Paull	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	Outline Rachel Cusk	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2015	The Paying Guests Sarah Waters	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	The Undertaking Audrey Magee	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	Burial Rites Hannah Kent	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2014	The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Life After Life Kate Atkinson	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2013	NW Zadie Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	State of Wonder Ann Patchett	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	Foreign Bodies Cynthia Ozick	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	Half-Blood Blues Esi Edugyan	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2012	Painter of Silence Georgina Harding	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Room Emma Donoghue	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Grace Williams Says it Loud Emma Henderson	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Annabel Kathleen Winter	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2011	Great House Nicole Krauss	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	Black Water Rising Attica Locke	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	A Gate at the Stairs Lorrie Moore	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	The White Woman on the Green Bicycle Monique Roffey	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2010	The Very Thought of You Rosie Alison	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Scottsboro Ellen Feldman	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	The Wilderness Samantha Harvey	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2009	The Invention of Everything Else Samantha Hunt	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	When We Were Bad Charlotte Mendelson	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	Lullabies for Little Criminals Heather O'Neill	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	Fault Lines Nancy Huston	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	Lottery Patricia Wood	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2008	The Outcast Sadie Jones	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	Digging to America Anne Tyler	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	The Observations Jane Harris	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	Arlington Park Rachel Cusk	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2007	A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Xiaolu Guo	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	The Accidental Ali Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Carrie Tiffany	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	Beyond Black Hilary Mantel	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	The History of Love Nicole Krauss	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2006	The Night Watch Sarah Waters	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	Old Filth Jane Gardam	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	Billie Morgan Joolz Denby	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	Liars and Saints Maile Meloy	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2005	The Mammoth Cheese Sheri Holman	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Ice Road Gillian Slovo	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	The Colour Rose Tremain	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2004	The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	Buddha Da Anne Donovan	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	Unless Carol Shields	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	The Little Friend Donna Tartt	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	Heligoland Shena Mackay	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2003	The Autograph Man Zadie Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	No Bones Anna Burns	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	A Child's Book of True Crime Chloe Hooper	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	The Siege Helen Dunmore	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	The White Family Maggie Gee	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2002	Fingersmith Sarah Waters	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Hotel World Ali Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Horse Heaven Jane Smiley	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Fred & Edie Jill Dawson	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2001	Homestead Rosina Lippi	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	The Dancers Dancing Éilís Ní Dhuibhne	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	Amy and Isabelle Elizabeth Strout	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	If I Told You Once Judy Budnitz	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Rebecca Wells	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
2000	White Teeth Zadie Smith	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	The Short History of a Prince Jane Hamilton	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	The Leper's Companions Julia Blackburn	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	Visible Worlds Marilyn Bowering	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1999	Paradise Toni Morrison	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Weight of Water Anita Shreve	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Magician's Assistant Ann Patchett	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	Love Like Hate Adore Deirdre Purcell	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	Lives of the Monster Dogs Kirsten Bakis	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1998	The Ventriloquist's Tale Pauline Melville	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	Accordion Crimes Annie Proulx	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	One by One in the Darkness Deirdre Madden	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	I Was Amelia Earhart Jane Mendelsohn	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	Hen's Teeth Manda Scott	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1997	Alias Grace Margaret Atwood	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	Ladder of Years Anne Tyler	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	The Book of Colour Julia Blackburn	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	Eveless Eden Marianne Wiggins	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource
1996	Spinsters Pagan Kennedy	Women's Prize for Fiction	shortlistedSource

Sources and coverage

Records retrieved 2026-09-18. Every winning year in the 1996–2026 coverage period is represented, allowing for the exceptions below. This completeness check covers years, not an independently verified count of every finalist. Each row links to its source.

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