Who won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2026?

“The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2026.

Who are the most recent Women's Prize for Fiction winners?

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.

Has anyone won the Women's Prize for Fiction more than once?

Yes - 1 author has: Barbara Kingsolver (2010, 2023).

Women's Prize for Fiction

Women's Prize Trust

A major British literary award celebrating excellence, originality, and accessibility in fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world. Formerly known as the Orange Prize and later the Baileys Women's Prize, it is awarded annually to a full-length novel.

Latest winner · 2026

The Correspondent · Virginia Evans

Next · expected April 2027

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2026

The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Won
Dominion
Addie E. Citchens
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Heart the Lover
Lily King
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Kingfisher
Rozie Kelly
Shortlisted
The Mercy Step
Marcia Hutchinson
Shortlisted

2025

The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
All Fours
Miranda July
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Fundamentally
Nussaibah Younis
Shortlisted
Good Girl
Aria Aber
Shortlisted
Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout
Shortlisted
The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji
Shortlisted

2024

Brotherless Night
V. V. Ganeshananthan
Won
Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad
Shortlisted
Restless Dolly Maunder
Kate Grenville
Shortlisted
River East, River West
Aube Rey Lescure
Shortlisted
Soldier Sailor
Claire Kilroy
Shortlisted
The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted

2023

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Black Butterflies
Priscilla Morris
Shortlisted
Fire Rush
Jacqueline Crooks
Shortlisted
Pod
Laline Paull
Shortlisted
The Marriage Portrait
Maggie O'Farrell
Shortlisted
Trespasses
Louise Kennedy
Shortlisted

2022

The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
Won
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason
Shortlisted
The Bread the Devil Knead
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Shortlisted
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
Shortlisted
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Shortlisted

2021

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Nominated for 8 more awards
Won
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Cherie Jones
Shortlisted
No One Is Talking about This
Patricia Lockwood
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Shortlisted
Unsettled Ground
Claire Fuller
Shortlisted

2020

Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
Shortlisted
Dominicana
Angie Cruz
Shortlisted
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
Weather
Jenny Offill
Shortlisted

2019

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
Circe
Madeline Miller
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Milkman
Anna Burns
Won 4 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Ordinary People
Diana Evans
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2018

Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
Sight
Jessie Greengrass
Shortlisted
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 5 more awards
Shortlisted
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
Imogen Hermes Gowar
Shortlisted
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
Meena Kandasamy
Shortlisted

2017

The Power
Naomi Alderman
Won
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
First Love
Gwendoline Riley
Shortlisted
Stay With Me
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Shortlisted
The Dark Circle
Linda Grant
Shortlisted
The Sport of Kings
C. E. Morgan
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2016

The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney
Won
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 4 more awards
Shortlisted
Ruby
Cynthia Bond
Shortlisted
The Green Road
Anne Enright
Nominated for 3 more awards
Shortlisted
The Improbability of Love
Hannah Rothschild
Shortlisted
The Portable Veblen
Elizabeth McKenzie
Shortlisted

2015

How to Be Both
Ali Smith
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
A God in Every Stone
Kamila Shamsie
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
A Spool of Blue Thread
Anne Tyler
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Outline
Rachel Cusk
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Bees
Laline Paull
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2014

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Won 2 more awards · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Undertaking
Audrey Magee
Shortlisted

2013

May We Be Forgiven
A. M. Homes
Won
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Flight Behaviour
Barbara Kingsolver
Shortlisted
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
NW
Zadie Smith
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Shortlisted

2012

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Won
Foreign Bodies
Cynthia Ozick
Shortlisted
Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted
Painter of Silence
Georgina Harding
Shortlisted
State of Wonder
Ann Patchett
Shortlisted
The Forgotten Waltz
Anne Enright
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted

2011

The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Annabel
Kathleen Winter
Shortlisted
Grace Williams Says it Loud
Emma Henderson
Shortlisted
Great House
Nicole Krauss
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Room
Emma Donoghue
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2010

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
Nominated for 2 more awards
Won
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Black Water Rising
Attica Locke
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Very Thought of You
Rosie Alison
Shortlisted
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
Monique Roffey
Shortlisted
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Won 3 more awards
Shortlisted

2009

Home
Marilynne Robinson
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 3 more awards
Won
Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie
Won 1 more award
Shortlisted
Molly Fox's Birthday
Deirdre Madden
Shortlisted
Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman
Shortlisted
The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt
Shortlisted
The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2008

The Road Home
Rose Tremain
Won
Fault Lines
Nancy Huston
Shortlisted
Lottery
Patricia Wood
Shortlisted
Lullabies for Little Criminals
Heather O'Neill
Shortlisted
The Outcast
Sadie Jones
Shortlisted
When We Were Bad
Charlotte Mendelson
Shortlisted

2007

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Won 1 more award
Won
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo
Shortlisted
Arlington Park
Rachel Cusk
Shortlisted
Digging to America
Anne Tyler
Shortlisted
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Won 2 more awards
Shortlisted
The Observations
Jane Harris
Shortlisted

2006

On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Carrie Tiffany
Shortlisted
The Accidental
Ali Smith
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
Shortlisted
The Night Watch
Sarah Waters
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2005

We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Won
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Marina Lewycka
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Billie Morgan
Joolz Denby
Shortlisted
Liars and Saints
Maile Meloy
Shortlisted
Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Shortlisted
The Mammoth Cheese
Sheri Holman
Shortlisted

2004

Small Island
Andrea Levy
Won
Ice Road
Gillian Slovo
Shortlisted
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Colour
Rose Tremain
Shortlisted
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 2 more awards
Shortlisted

2003

Property
Valerie Martin
Won
Buddha Da
Anne Donovan
Shortlisted
Heligoland
Shena Mackay
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
Shortlisted
Unless
Carol Shields
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2002

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Won
A Child's Book of True Crime
Chloe Hooper
Shortlisted
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
No Bones
Anna Burns
Shortlisted
The Siege
Helen Dunmore
Shortlisted
The White Family
Maggie Gee
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2001

The Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville
Won
Fred & Edie
Jill Dawson
Shortlisted
Homestead
Rosina Lippi
Shortlisted
Horse Heaven
Jane Smiley
Shortlisted
Hotel World
Ali Smith
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

2000

When I Lived in Modern Times
Linda Grant
Won
Amy and Isabelle
Elizabeth Strout
Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells
Shortlisted
If I Told You Once
Judy Budnitz
Shortlisted
The Dancers Dancing
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Shortlisted
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Won 1 more award · Nominated for 1 more award
Shortlisted

Frequently asked questions

Who won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2026?: “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2026.
Who are the most recent Women's Prize for Fiction winners?: 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.
Has anyone won the Women's Prize for Fiction more than once?: Yes - 1 author has: Barbara Kingsolver (2010, 2023).