• Zadie Smith's On Beauty wins £30,000 fiction prize
• Judges pay tribute to 'a literary tour de force'
A return to form for a 21st century celebrity
Claire Armitstead: This is Zadie Smith's graduation piece. It is perhaps too edgily alive to be perfect. But it marks a return to the warmth of White Teeth and there is a new sophistication to the way it embodies its clashes of age, race and culture.
Zadie Smith wins Orange prize
Zadie Smith has held off competition from perhaps the strongest Orange shortlist in the prize's history to take this year's award with her third novel, On Beauty.
May 2006
Alderman makes second bid for Orange prize
Naomi Alderman who failed to make the leap from longlist to shortlist in the Orange prize for fiction award for her novel, Disobedience, is now in the final running for Orange's £10,000 new writers prize.
April 2006
Prize culture lags behind
Natasha Walter
Commerce complements art in final lineup for Orange prize
March 2006
'It pains me that I can no longer feel sorry for myself'
Last year she was unknown, skint and hooked on two-for-one toiletries. Then she won the Orange prize. Following the announcement of this year's longlist, Lionel Shriver reveals how the award changed her life.
Big hitting Smiths head formidable list in battle for Orange prize
Two of the big hitters defeated so far in the current book prize season were yesterday given a final chance of a victory.
New writers join past winner on Orange longlist
This year's Orange prize for fiction longlist, announced this morning at the London Book Fair, reflected the strength of what has been an exceptional year for women's fiction.
