PEN/Faulkner AwardWinner

Given by PEN/Faulkner Foundation

Other Names: PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
44 Works 90,016 Books 2,460 Reviews ½ 3.8
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of show more the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (44), Finalist (224), Longlist (55)
Years:
All, 2024 (1), 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1)
Announced:
April 4: Winner2024 Recent
March 5: Finalist2024 Recent

Winner 44

WorkYear
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez2024
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li2023
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine2022
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw2021
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis2020
Call Me Zebra by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi2019
Improvement by Joan Silber2018
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue2017
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham2016
Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish2015
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler2014
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz2013
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka2012
The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg2011
War Dances by Sherman Alexie2010
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill2009
The Great Man by Kate Christensen2008
Everyman by Philip Roth2007
The March by E. L. Doctorow2006
War Trash by Ha Jin2005
The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike2004
The Caprices by Sabina Murray2003
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett2002
The Human Stain by Philip Roth2001
Waiting by Ha Jin2000
The Hours by Michael Cunningham1999
The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor1998
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault1997
Independence Day by Richard Ford1996
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson1995
Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth1994
Postcards by Annie Proulx1993
Mao II by Don DeLillo1992
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman1991
Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow1990
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter1989
World's End by T.C. Boyle1988
Soldiers in Hiding: A Novel (Rediscovery) by Richard Wiley1987
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court : Stories by Peter Taylor1986
The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff1985
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman1984
Seaview by Toby Olson1983
The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley1982
How German Is It by Walter Abish1981

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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May. (English, Member-written)
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize that honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. (English, Member-written)

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