Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - First Fiction

Awards List

2015

Elegy on Kinderklavier
(Winner)
Arna Bontemps Hemenway

For Today I Am a Boy
(Finalist)
Kim Fu

Marine Park: Stories
(Honorable Mention)
Mark Chiusano

Man V. Nature: Stories
(Honorable Mention)
Diane Cook

Preparation for the Next Life
(Finalist)
Atticus Lish

2014

We Need New Names
(Winner)
Noviolet Bulawayo

The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
(Honorable Mention)
Ethan Rutherford

Damn Love
(Honorable Mention)
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara

The Residue Years
(Finalist)
Mitchell S. Jackson

The Old Priest
(Finalist)
Anthony Wallace

2013

The Yellow Birds
(Winner)
Kevin Powers

A Partial History of Lost Causes
(Finalist)
Jennifer DuBois

As It Is on Earth
(Honorable Mention)
Peter Wheelwright

2012

Open City
(Winner)
Teju Cole

Accidental Birds of the Carolinas
(Honorable Mention)
Marjorie Hudson

The Submission
(Finalist)
Amy Waldman

We Are Taking Only What We Need
(Finalist)
Stephanie Powell Watts

2011

The Madonnas of Echo Park
(Winner)
Brando Skyhorse

Death Is Not an Option
(Finalist)
Suzanne Rivecca

Vida
(Finalist)
Patricia Engel

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
(Honorable Mention)
Danielle Evans

2010

Cutting for Stone
(Finalist)
Abraham Verghese

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
(Honorable Mention)
Lydia Peelle

2009

A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
(Winner)
Michael Dahlie

Personal Days
(Finalist)
Ed Park

Alive in Necropolis
(Honorable Mention)
Doug Dorst

The Silver Linings Playbook
(Honorable Mention)
Matthew Quick

2008

Then We Came to the End
(Winner)
Joshua Ferris

Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money
(Finalist)
Rebecca Curtis

Migration Patterns: Stories
(Honorable Mention)
Gary Schanbacher

The Pale of Settlement
(Honorable Mention)
Margot Singer

2007

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
(Winner)
Ben Fountain

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
(Honorable Mention)
Marisha Pessl

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
(Honorable Mention)
Janna Levin

Icebergs
(Finalist)
Rebecca Johns

2006

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
(Winner)
Yiyun Li

The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space
(Finalist)
Douglas Trevor

Waterloo
(Honorable Mention)
Karen Olsson

2005

GraceLand
(Winner)
Chris Abani

Madras on Rainy Days
(Finalist)
Samina Ali

Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
(Finalist)
Laurie Lynn Drummond

Animal Crackers: Stories
(Honorable Mention)
Hannah Tinti

The Kiss of the Prison Dancer
(Honorable Mention)
Jerome Richard

2004

Mrs. Kimble
(Winner)
Jennifer Haigh

The Interpreter
(Honorable Mention)
Suki Kim

Night Journey
(Finalist)
Murad Kalam

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
(Finalist)
Z.Z. Packer

2003

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
(Winner)
Gabriel Brownstein

2002

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
(Winner)
Gabriel Brownstein

2001

Mary and O'Neil
(Winner)
Justin Cronin

The Death of Vishnu
(Finalist)
Manil Suri

The Bostons
(Nominee)
Carolyn Cooke

2000

An Obedient Father
(Winner)
Akhil Sharma

Moth Smoke
(Nominee)
Mohsin Hamid

Scar Vegas: And Other Stories
(Nominee)
Tom Paine

Award Categories

Fiction

First Fiction

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