Orange Broadband Prize

British literary prize of £30,000. The award, established in 1996, is open to women of any nationality for the best original full-length novel published in English. The prize is sponsored by the British Orange mobile telephone company.

The Orange Broadband Award for New Writers, a literary prize that seeks emerging talent, was established in 2005. The prize is open to female writers of published novels, novellas, and short stories, and the winner receives £10,000.

Past winners of the Orange Prize include Canadian Carol Shields (1998) and Britons Kate Grenville (2001) and Zadie Smith (2006).

In its first year, it was won by English author Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter. Formerly the ‘Orange Prize’, the company added ‘Broadband’ to the name of the award in 2007 to reflect its focus on the online market.