Every winner, newest first

Women's Prize for Fiction Winners

1996 to 2026

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

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

About the Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction is one of the UK's most prestigious literary awards, presented annually since 1996 to the best full length novel written in English by a woman of any nationality. Formerly the Orange Prize and the Baileys Prize, it has celebrated writers from Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Maggie O'Farrell and Barbara Kingsolver.

Awarded by: Women's Prize Trust
First awarded: 1996
Country: United Kingdom
Winner receives: £30,000

When it is announced

The winner is announced in June, after a longlist in March and a shortlist in April. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

Publishers submit. Eligible books are full length novels written in English by a woman of any nationality and published in the UK during the prize year.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.