Women’s Prize for Fiction

Women’s Prize for Fiction, English literary prize for women that was conceptualized in 1992 and instituted in 1996 by a group of publishing industry professionals—including agents, booksellers, critics, journalists, and librarians—who were frustrated by what they perceived as chauvinism in the selection of finalists for literary awards such as the Booker Prize. The award was initially funded by an anonymous endowment and by the Orange Group, a telecommunications company that had frequently supported the arts....