Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie holds the “Bessie”*
The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary prizes, awarded annually for the best original full-length novel by a female author of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK in the preceding year.
The winner of the prize receives £30,000, along with a bronze sculpture called the *”Bessie” created by artist Grizel Niven, the sister of actor/writer David Niven.
Winners
- 1996: Helen Dunmore - A Spell of Winter
- 1997: Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces
- 1998: Carol Shields - Larry’s Party
- 1999: Suzanne Berne - A Crime in the Neighborhood
- 2000: Linda Grant - When I Lived in Modern Times
- 2001: Kate Grenville - The Idea of Perfection
- 2002: Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
- 2003: Valerie Martin - Property
- 2004: Andrea Levy - Small Island
- 2005: Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
- 2006: Zadie Smith - On Beauty
- 2007: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
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