Hamnet

The Women’s Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year. A sister prize, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, was launched in 2023.

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