Orange Prize for Fiction

The Orange Prize for Fiction is an award of 30,000 pounds for a full-length novel, written by a female of any nationality and first published in the UK.

2008 WINNER

• The road home
  TREMAIN, Rose

SHORTLIST

• Fault lines
  HUSTON, Nancy
• The outcast
  JONES, Sadie
• When we were bad
  MENDELSON, Charlotte
• Lullabies for little criminals
  O'NEILL, Heather
• Lottery
  WOOD, Patricia

2007 WINNER

• Half of a yellow sun
  ADICHIE, Chimamandai

SHORTLIST

• Arlington Park
  CUSK, Rachel
• The inheritance of loss
  DESAI, Kiran
• A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers
  GUO, Xiaolu
• The observations
  HARRIS, Jane
• Digging to America
  TYLER, Ann

2006 WINNER

• On beauty
  SMITH, Zadie

SHORTLIST

• The history of love
  KRAUSS, Nicole
• Beyond black
  MANTEL, Hilary
• The accidental
  SMITH, Ali
• Everyman's rules for scientific living
  TIFFANY, Carrie
• The night watch
  WATERS, Sarah

2005 WINNER

• We need to talk about Kevin
  SHRIVER, Lionel

SHORTLIST

• Billie Morgan
  DENBY, Joolz
• Old filth
  GARDAM, Jane
• The mammoth cheese
  HOLMAN, Sheri
• A short history of tractors in Ukrainian
  LEWYCKA, Marina
• Liars and saints
  MELOY, Maile

2004 WINNER

• Small Island
  LEVY, Andrea

SHORTLIST

• Purple hibiscus
  ADICHIE, Chimamanda
• Oryx and Crake
  ATWOOD, Margaret
• The great fire
  HAZZARD, Shirley
• Ice road
  SLOVO, Gillian
• The colour
  TREMAIN, Rose

2003 WINNER

• Property
  MARTIN, Valerie

SHORTLIST

• Buddha da
  DONOVAN, Anne
• Heligoland
  MACKAY, Shena
• Unless
  SHIELDS, Carol
• The autograph man
  SMITH, Zadie
• The little friend
  TARTT, Donna

2002 WINNER

• Bel Canto
  PATCHETT, Ann

SHORTLIST

• No bones
  BURNS, Anna
• The siege
  DUNMORE, Helen
• The White family
  GEE, Maggie
• A child's book of true crime
  HOOPER, Chloe
• Fingersmith
  WATERS, Sarah

2001 WINNER

• The idea of perfection
  GRENVILLE, Kate

SHORTLIST

• The blind assassin
  ATWOOD, Margaret
• Fred and Edie
  DAWSON, Jill
• Homestead
  LIPPI, Rosina
• Hotel world
  SMITH, Ali
• Horse heaven
  SMILEY, Jane

2000 WINNER

• When I lived in modern times
  GRANT, Linda

SHORTLIST

• If I told you once
  BUDNITZ, Judy
• The dancers dancing
  DHUIBHNE, Eilis Ni
• White teeth
  SMITH, Zadie
• Amy and Isabelle 
  STROUT, Elizabeth
• Divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood
  WELLS, Rebecca

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