About the prize: “The Orange Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.”
2012: TBA (shortlist)
2011: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
2010: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
2009: Home by Marilynne Robinson
2008: The Road Home by Rose Tremain
2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2006: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2005: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2004: Small Island by Andrea Levy
2003: Property by Valerie Martin
2002: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2001: The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
2000: When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
1999: A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
1998: Larry’s Party by Carol Shield
1997: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
1996: A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore
