Living Canon

Women’s Prize for Fiction

The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence in fiction written by women from around the world. Founded in 1996, it is one of the UK’s most prestigious literary awards.

• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

  2025Women's PrizeFiction
• Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan

  2024Women's PrizeFiction
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  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

  2023Women's PrizeFiction
• The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

  2022Women's PrizeFiction
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  Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  2021Women's PrizeFiction
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  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

  2020Women's PrizeFiction
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  An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

  2019Women's PrizeFiction
• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

  2018Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Power by Naomi Alderman

  2017Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

  2016Women's PrizeFiction
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  How to Be Both by Ali Smith

  2015Women's PrizeFiction
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  A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

  2014Women's PrizeFiction
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  May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes

  2013Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

  2012Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht

  2011Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

  2010Women's PrizeFiction
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  Home by Marilynne Robinson

  2009Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Road Home by Rose Tremain

  2008Women's PrizeFiction
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  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  2007Women's PrizeFiction
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  On Beauty by Zadie Smith

  2006Women's PrizeFiction
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  We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

  2005Women's PrizeFiction
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  Small Island by Andrea Levy

  2004Women's PrizeFiction
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  Property by Valerie Martin

  2003Women's PrizeFiction
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  2002Women's PrizeFiction
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  The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville

  2001Women's PrizeFiction
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  When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant

  2000Women's PrizeFiction
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  A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne

  1999Women's PrizeFiction
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  Larry's Party by Carol Shields

  1998Women's PrizeFiction
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  Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

  1997Women's PrizeFiction
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  A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore

  1996Women's PrizeFiction

• Fiction

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• World Fantasy Awards