PEN Literary Award - Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Awards List

2018

Chemistry
(Winner)
Weike Wang

2017

Homegoing
(Winner)
Yaa Gyasi

2016

Eileen
(Winner)
Ottessa Moshfegh

The Sympathizer
(Finalist)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Turner House
(Finalist)
Angela Flournoy

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
(Finalist)
Julie Iromuanya

In the Country: Stories
(Finalist)
Mia Alvar

Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
(Finalist)
Jennifer Tseng

2015

Elegy on Kinderklavier
(Winner)
Arna Bontemps Hemenway

The UnAmericans: Stories
(Finalist)
Molly Antopol

Redeployment
(Finalist)
Phil Klay

Ruby
(Finalist)
Cynthia Bond

The Dog: Stories
(Finalist)
Jack Livings

Love Me Back
(Finalist)
Merritt Tierce

2014

We Need New Names
(Winner)
Noviolet Bulawayo

2013

A Naked Singularity
(Winner)
Sergio De La Pava

The Yellow Birds
(Winner)
Kevin Powers

A Land More Kind Than Home
(Finalist)
Wiley Cash

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain
(Finalist)
Lucia Perillo

My Only Wife
(Finalist)
Jac Jemc

Battleborn
(Finalist)
Claire Vaye Watkins

2012

Open City
(Winner)
Teju Cole

Zazen
(Winner)
Vanessa Veselka

Leaving the Atocha Station
(Runner-Up)
Ben Lerner

2011

The Madonnas of Echo Park
(Winner)
Brando Skyhorse

2010

A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
(Winner)
Brigid Pasulka

2009

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

2008

Then We Came to the End
(Winner)
Joshua Ferris

2007

Brief Encounters with Che Guevara
(Winner)
Ben Fountain

2006

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
(Winner)
Yiyun Li

2005

GraceLand
(Winner)
Chris Abani

2004

Mrs. Kimble
(Winner)
Jennifer Haigh

2003

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

2002

Mary and O'Neil
(Winner)
Justin Cronin

2001

An Obedient Father
(Winner)
Akhil Sharma

2000

Interpreter of Maladies
(Winner)
Jhumpa Lahiri

1999

Homestead
(Winner)
Rosina Lippi

1998

A Private State: Stories
(Winner)
Charlotte Bacon

1997

Ocean of Words
(Winner)
Ha Jin

1996

Native Speaker
(Winner)
Chang-Rae Lee

1995

Grass Dancer
(Winner)
Susan Power

1994

The Magic of Blood
(Winner)
Dagoberto Gilb

1993

Lost in the City
(Winner)
Edward P. Jones

1992

Wartime Lies
(Winner)
Louis Begley

1990

The Ice At The Bottom Of The World
(Winner)
Mark Richard

1989

The Book of Ruth
(Winner)
Jane Hamilton

1988

Imagining Argentina
(Winner)
Lawrence Thornton

1987

Tongues of Flame
(Winner)
Mary Ward Brown

1986

Lady's Time
(Winner)
Alan V. Hewat

1985

Dreams of Sleep
(Winner)
Josephine Humphreys

1984

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
(Winner)
Joan Chase

1983

Shiloh and Other Stories
(Winner)
Bobbie Ann Mason

1982

Housekeeping
(Winner)
Marilynne Robinson

1981

Household Words
(Winner)
Joan Silber

1980

Mom Kills Kids & Self
(Winner)
Alan Saperstein

1978

A Way of Life, Like Any Other
(Winner)
Darcy O'Brien

1977

Speedboat
(Winner)
Renata Adler
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1976

Parthian Shot
(Winner)
Loyd Little

Award Categories

Art of the Essay

Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

Children/Young Adult

Creative Nonfiction

Drama

Fiction

First Fiction

First Nonfiction

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Kroll Award: Illustrated Children's Book

Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult

Open Book

Picture Book

R. Bingham Fellowship

Translation

Award Years

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2016

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