List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners
Winners and shortlisted writers

List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners

Section Title: Winners and shortlisted writers
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Year	Winner	Work	Shortlisted nominees	Notes	Ref(s)

1996	-	Helen Dunmore	A Spell of Winter	Julia Blackburn, The Book of Colour Pagan Kennedy, Spinsters Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years Marianne Wiggins, Eveless Eden	Inaugural award known as the "Orange Prize for Fiction".

1997	Anne Michaels	Fugitive Pieces	Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace Deirdre Madden, One by One in the Darkness Jane Mendelsohn, I Was Amelia Earhart Annie Proulx, Accordion Crimes Manda Scott, Hen's Teeth	First non-British winner

1998	Carol Shields	Larry's Party	Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs Pauline Melville, The Ventriloquist's Tale Ann Patchett, The Magician's Assistant Deirdre Purcell, Love Like Hate Adore Anita Shreve, The Weight of Water	Second Canadian winner

1999	Suzanne Berne	A Crime in the Neighborhood	Julia Blackburn, The Leper's Companions Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds Jane Hamilton, The Short History of a Prince Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Toni Morrison, Paradise	Blackburn's second shortlisted nomination

2000	Linda Grant	When I Lived in Modern Times	Judy Budnitz, If I Told You Once Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Dancers Dancing Zadie Smith, White Teeth Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Second British winner in five years

2001	-	Kate Grenville	The Idea of Perfection	Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Jill Dawson, Fred & Edie Rosina Lippi, Homestead Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven Ali Smith, Hotel World	Atwood's second shortlisted nomination

2002	Ann Patchett 2012 Shankbone.JPG	Ann Patchett	Bel Canto	Anna Burns, No Bones Helen Dunmore, The Siege Maggie Gee, The White Family Chloe Hooper, A Child's Book of True Crime Sarah Waters, Fingersmith	Dunmore's first nomination since winning in 1996

2003	Valerie martiin 5172471.JPG	Valerie Martin	Property	Anne Donovan, Buddha Da Shena Mackay, Heligoland Carol Shields, Unless Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man Donna Tartt, The Little Friend	Shields' first nomination since winning in 1998, Smith's second shortlisted nomination

2004	Andrea Levy	Small Island	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire Gillian Slovo, Ice Road Rose Tremain, The Colour	First British winner since 2000, Atwood's third shortlisted nomination. Small Island was also the Whitbread Book of the Year.

2005	-	Lionel Shriver	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Joolz Denby, Billie Morgan Jane Gardam, Old Filth Sheri Holman, The Mammoth Cheese Marina Lewycka, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Maile Meloy, Liars and Saints	The "Orange of Oranges" was awarded to Andrea Levy for Small Island.

2006	-	Zadie Smith	On Beauty	Nicole Krauss, The History of Love Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black Ali Smith, The Accidental Carrie Tiffany, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living Sarah Waters, The Night Watch	Zadie Smith's first win after two nominations, Ali Smith and Sarah Waters' second nomination

2007	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9374.JPG	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Half of a Yellow Sun	Rachel Cusk, Arlington Park Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Jane Harris, The Observations Anne Tyler, Digging to America	Award renamed as "Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction". Adichie's first win after being nominated in 2004, Tyler's second shortlisted nomination.

2008	Rose Tremain	The Road Home	Nancy Huston, Fault Lines Sadie Jones, The Outcast Charlotte Mendelson, When We Were Bad Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals Patricia Wood, Lottery	This was Tremain's 14th novel.

2009	-	Marilynne Robinson	Home	Ellen Feldman, Scottsboro Samantha Harvey, The Wilderness Samantha Hunt, The Invention of Everything Else Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows	Award renamed as "Orange Prize for Fiction". Robinson's third novel in 28 years, Madden's second shortlisted nomination.

2010	Barbara Kingsolver	The Lacuna	Rosie Alison, The Very Thought of You Attica Locke, Black Water Rising Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle	Sixth novel by Kingsolver.

2011	-	Téa Obreht	The Tiger's Wife	Emma Donoghue, Room Aminatta Forna, The Memory of Love Emma Henderson, Grace Williams Says it Loud Nicole Krauss, Great House Kathleen Winter, Annabel	Debut novel by Obreht. At age 25 (at the time of the award) she was the youngest author to win to date.

2012	Madeline Miller - Kolkata 2013-02-03 4377 Cropped.JPG	Madeline Miller	The Song of Achilles	Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz Georgina Harding, Painter of Silence Cynthia Ozick, Foreign Bodies Ann Patchett, State of Wonder	Debut novel by Miller

2013	-	A. M. Homes	May We Be Forgiven	Maria Semple, Where'd You Go Bernadette Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behaviour Kate Atkinson, Life After Life Zadie Smith, NW	Award renamed as "Women's Prize for Fiction". A.M. Homes' 6th novel.

2014	-	Eimear McBride	A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah Hannah Kent, Burial Rites Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland Audrey Magee, The Undertaking Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch	Award renamed as "Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction". First shortlist with no British authors.

2015	-	Ali Smith	How to Be Both	Laline Paull, The Bees Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone Rachel Cusk, Outline	Debut novel by Paull. The "Baileys of Baileys" was awarded to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half a Yellow Sun.

2016	Lisa McInerney	The Glorious Heresies	Cynthia Bond, Ruby Anne Enright, The Green Road Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen Hannah Rothschild, The Improbability of Love Hanya Yangihara, A Little Life	Debut novel by McInerney. Ruby, The Portable Veblen and The Improbability of Love are also debut novels.

2017	Naomi Alderman	The Power	Ayobami Adebayo, Stay With Me Linda Grant, The Dark Circle C. E.

2018	-	Kamila Shamsie	Home Fire	Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing Elif Batuman, The Idiot Jessie Greengrass, Sight Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock Meena Kandasamy, When I hit you: or, a Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

2019	To be announced 5 June 2019	Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer Anna Burns, Milkman Diana Evans, Ordinary People Tayari Jones, An American Marriage Madeline Miller, Circe

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"The History of Love" won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2006.

final_sentence: "The History of Love" won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2006.