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The Women's Prize for Fiction

Awarded annually for the best novel written by a woman and published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding year.

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Celebrating high-quality writing by women and proving that gender is no barrier to being included in the literary canon.

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2025 Winner

WINNER

Yael van der Wouden

The Safekeep

Shortlist (5)

1

Aria Aber Good Girl

2

Miranda July All Fours

3

Sanam Mahloudji The Persians

4

Elizabeth Strout Tell Me Everything

5

Nussaibah Younis Fundamentally

2024 Winner

WINNER

V. V. Ganeshananthan

Brotherless Night

Shortlist (5)

1

Alexis Wright Praiseworthy

2

Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You

3

Chetna Maroo Western Lane

4

Paul Harding This Other Eden

5

Paul Murray The Bee Sting

2023 Winner

WINNER

Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Shortlist (5)

1

Sarah Holland-Batt The Jaguar

2

Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

3

Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry

4

Sarah Winman Still Life

5

Sarah Maria Griffin Spare and Found Parts

2022 Winner

WINNER

Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Shortlist (5)

1

Lisa Allen-Agostini The Bread the Devil Knead

2

Louise Erdrich The Sentence

3

Meg Mason Sorrow and Bliss

4

Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees

5

Maggie Shipstead Great Circle

2021 Winner

WINNER

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Shortlist (5)

1

Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half

2

Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground

3

Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom

4

Cherie Jones How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

5

Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This

2020 Winner

WINNER

Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet

Shortlist (5)

1

Angie Cruz Dominicana

2

Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other

3

Natalie Haynes A Thousand Ships

4

Hilary Mantel The Mirror and the Light

5

Jenny Offill Weather

2019 Winner

WINNER

Tayari Jones

An American Marriage

Shortlist (5)

1

Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls

2

Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer

3

Anna Burns Milkman

4

Diana Evans Ordinary People

5

Madeline Miller Circe

2018 Winner

WINNER

Kamila Shamsie

Home Fire

Shortlist (5)

1

Elif Batuman The Idiot

2

Imogen Hermes Gowar The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

3

Jessie Greengrass Sight

4

Meena Kandasamy When I Hit You

5

Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing

2017 Winner

WINNER

Naomi Alderman

The Power

Shortlist (5)

1

Ayobami Adebayo Stay With Me

2

Linda Grant The Dark Circle

3

C. E. Morgan The Sport of Kings

4

Gwendoline Riley First Love

5

Madeleine Thien Do Not Say We Have Nothing

2016 Winner

WINNER

Lisa McInerney

The Glorious Heresies

Shortlist (5)

1

Cynthia Bond Ruby

2

Anne Enright The Green Road

3

Elizabeth McKenzie The Portable Veblen

4

Hannah Rothschild The Improbability of Love

5

Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life

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