PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens.[1] The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."[1] The award was first given in 1981.[2]
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in using his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's A Separate Peace in 1961. The foundation was dissolved after 1970.
Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner award after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN voted a boycott on the ground that they were too commercial.[2][3] It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- 1981 - Walter Abish, How German Is It[4]
- Shirley Hazard, The Transit of Venus
- Walker Percy, The Second Coming
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
- 1982 - David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
- Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
- Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
- Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories
- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
- Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
- 1983 - Toby Olson, Seaview
- 1984 - John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
- Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- William Kennedy, Ironweed
- Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
- Bernard Malamud, The Stories
- Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy
- 1985 - Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
- Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
- Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
- David Leavitt, Family Dancing
- James Purdy, On Glory's Course
- 1986 - Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
- William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic
- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
- Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
- Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife: Stories
- Grace Paley, Later the Same Day
- 1987 - Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
- Charles R. Johnson, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
- Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits
- 1988 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
- Richard Bausch, Spirits, And Other Stories
- Alice McDermott, That Night
- Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
- Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina
- 1989 - James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories
- Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
- Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
- 1990 - E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
- Russell Banks, Affliction
- Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
- Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island: New and Selected Stories
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn
- 1991 - John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
- Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
- Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier
- Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum
- Joanna Scott. Arrogance
- 1992 - Don DeLillo, Mao II
- Stephen Dixon, Frog
- Paul Gervais (writer), Extraordinary People
- Allan Gurganus, White People
- 1993 - E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
- Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
- Maureen Howard, Natural History
- Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead
- 1994 - Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
- Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh's Room at Arles
- Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
- Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
- Kate Wheeler, Not Where I Started From
- 1995 - David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- Frederick Busch, The Children in the Woods
- Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
- Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
- Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes
- 1996 - Richard Ford, Independence Day
- Madison Smartt Bell, All Souls' Rising
- William H. Gass, The Tunnel
- Claire Messud, When The World Was Steady
- A.J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
- 1997 - Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
- Daniel Akst, St. Burl's Obituary
- Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
- Ron Hansen, Atticus
- Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
- 1998 - Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
- Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
- Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
- Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To
- Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
- 1999 - Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening
- Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories
- 2000 - Ha Jin, Waiting
- Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
- Ken Kalfus, Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies
- Elizabeth Strout, Amy And Isabelle
- Lily Tuck, Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man
- 2001 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold
- Denis Johnson, The Name of the World
- Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road
- 2002 - Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
- Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- Claire Messud, The Hunters
- Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
- 2003 - Sabina Murray, The Caprices
- Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination
- William Kennedy, Roscoe
- Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
- Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino
- 2004 - John Updike, The Early Stories: 1953–1975
- Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights
- ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
- Tobias Wolff, Old School
- 2005 - Ha Jin, War Trash
- Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
- Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
- Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War
- 2006 - E.L. Doctorow, The March
- Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country
- William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton
- James Salter, Last Night
- Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Palace
- 2007 - Philip Roth, Everyman
- Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
- Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
- Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
- Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar's Children
- 2008 - Kate Christensen, The Great Man
- Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
- David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
- T. M. McNally, The Gateway
- Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories
- 2009 - Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
- Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles
- Susan Choi, A Person of Interest
- Richard Price, Lush Life
- Ron Rash, Serena
- 2010 - Sherman Alexie, War Dances
- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
- Lorraine Lopéz, Homicide Survivors Picnic
- Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
- Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
- 2011 - Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
- Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
- Eric Puchner, Model Home
- Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories
- 2012 - Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
- Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin
- Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda
- Anita Desai, The Artist of Disappearance
- Steven Millhauser, We Others: New and Selected Stories
- 2013 - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
- Amelia Gray, THREATS
- Laird Hunt, Kind One
- T. Geronimo Johnson, Hold It 'Til It Hurts
- Thomas Mallon, Watergate
- 2014 - Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles
- Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
- Joan Silber, Fools
- Valerie Trueblood, Search Party: Stories of Rescue
- 2015 - Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life[5]
- Jeffrey Renard Allen, Song of the Shank
- Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
- Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
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