Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction is awarded annually to a woman of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English and published in the…

Any female writer, novels written in English and published in the UK in the award year.

2024

• Brotherless Night — winner
• River East, River West — shortlist
• Soldier Sailor — shortlist
• The Wren, the Wren — shortlist
• Restless Dolly Maunder — shortlist

2023

• Demon Copperhead — winner
• Trespasses — shortlist
• Pod — shortlist
• Fire Rush — shortlist
• Black Butterflies — shortlist
• The Marriage Portrait — shortlist

2022

• The Book of Form and Emptiness — winner
• The Bread the Devil Knead — shortlist
• Sorrow and Bliss — shortlist
• The Sentence — shortlist
• Great Circle — shortlist

2021

• Piranesi — winner
• No One Is Talking About This — shortlist
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House — shortlist
• The Vanishing Half — shortlist
• Unsettled Ground — shortlist
• Transcendent Kingdom — shortlist

2020

• Hamnet — winner
• The Mirror & the Light — shortlist
• Girl, Woman, Other — shortlist
• Weather — shortlist
• A Thousand Ships — shortlist
• Dominicana — shortlist

2019

• An American Marriage — winner
• My Sister, the Serial Killer — shortlist
• Milkman — shortlist
• The Silence of the Girls — shortlist
• Circe — shortlist
• Ordinary People — shortlist

2018

• Home Fire — winner
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — shortlist
• The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock — shortlist
• The Idiot — shortlist
• Sight — shortlist
• When I Hit You — shortlist

2017

• The Power — winner
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing — shortlist
• First Love — shortlist
• The Sport of Kings — shortlist

2016

• The Glorious Heresies — winner
• A Little Life — shortlist
• The Portable Veblen — shortlist
• Ruby — shortlist
• The Green Road — shortlist
• The Improbability of Love — shortlist

2015

• How to Be Both — winner
• The Bees — shortlist
• Outline — shortlist
• The Paying Guests — shortlist
• A Spool of Blue Thread — shortlist
• A God in Every Stone — shortlist

2014

• A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing — winner
• Americanah — shortlist
• The Goldfinch — shortlist
• The Lowland — shortlist
• Burial Rites — shortlist
• The Undertaking — shortlist

2013

• May We be Forgiven — winner
• Bring Up the Bodies — shortlist
• Life After Life — shortlist
• NW — shortlist
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette — shortlist

2012

• The Song of Achilles — winner
• Half-Blood Blues — shortlist
• The Forgotten Waltz — shortlist
• Foreign Bodies — shortlist
• Painter of Silence — shortlist
• State of Wonder — shortlist

2011

• The Tiger's Wife — winner
• Room — shortlist
• Annabel — shortlist
• Grace Williams Says It Loud — shortlist
• The Memory of Love — shortlist
• Great House — shortlist

2010

• The Lacuna — winner
• Black Water Rising — shortlist
• The Very Thought Of You — shortlist
• Wolf Hall — shortlist
• A Gate at the Stairs — shortlist
• The White Woman on the Green Bicycle — shortlist

2009

• Home — winner
• Scottsboro — shortlist
• Molly Fox's Birthday — shortlist
• The Invention of Everything Else — shortlist
• The Wilderness — shortlist
• Burnt Shadows — shortlist

2008

• The Road Home — winner
• When We Were Bad — shortlist
• Lottery — shortlist
• Lullabies for Little Criminals — shortlist
• Fault Lines — shortlist

2007

• Half of a Yellow Sun — winner
• Digging to America — shortlist
• Arlington Park — shortlist
• The Inheritance of Loss — shortlist
• A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers — shortlist
• The Observations — shortlist

2006

• On Beauty — winner
• The Night Watch — shortlist
• The History of Love — shortlist
• The Accidental — shortlist
• Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living — shortlist
• Beyond Black — shortlist

2005

• We Need to Talk About Kevin — winner
• Liars and Saints — shortlist
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian — shortlist
• Old Filth — shortlist
• Billie Morgan — shortlist
• The Mammoth Cheese — shortlist

2004

• Small Island — winner
• The Great Fire — shortlist
• Ice Road — shortlist
• The Colour — shortlist
• Purple Hibiscus — shortlist
• Oryx and Crake — shortlist

2003

• Property — winner
• The Autograph Man — shortlist
• The Little Friend — shortlist
• Unless — shortlist
• Buddha Da — shortlist
• Heligoland — shortlist

2002

• Bel Canto — winner
• Fingersmith — shortlist
• No bones — shortlist
• The White Family — shortlist
• A Child's Book Of True Crime — shortlist
• The Siege — shortlist

2001

• The Idea of Perfection — winner
• Homestead — shortlist
• Fred & Edie — shortlist
• Hotel World — shortlist
• The Blind Assassin — shortlist

2000

• When I Lived in Modern Times — winner
• If I Told You Once — shortlist
• White Teeth — shortlist
• The Dancers Dancing — shortlist

1999

• A Crime in the Neighborhood — winner
• The Short History Of A Prince — shortlist
• Paradise — shortlist
• The Leper's Companions — shortlist
• Visible Worlds — shortlist

1998

• Larry's Party — winner
• The Ventriloquist's Tale — shortlist
• The Weight of Water — shortlist
• The Magician's Assistant — shortlist
• Lives of the Monster Dogs — shortlist
• Love Like Hate Adore — shortlist

1997

• Fugitive Pieces — winner
• Hen's Teeth — shortlist
• Alias Grace — shortlist
• I Was Amelia Earhart — shortlist
• One by One in the Darkness — shortlist

1996

• A Spell of Winter — winner
• The Hundred Secret Senses — shortlist
• Eveless Eden — shortlist
• Spinsters — shortlist
• Ladder of Years — shortlist
• The Book of Colour — shortlist