PEN Literary Award Winners Fiction

Awards List

2017

Black Sheep Boy (Winner)
Martin Pousson

May-2016
/ Literary

2016

See How Small (Winner)
Scott Blackwood

Jan-2015
/ Suspense

2015

Bridge (Winner)
Robert Thomas

Oct-2014
/ Psychological Suspense

Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Finalist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Apr-2014
/ Psychological Suspense

Fourth of July Creek (Finalist)
Smith Henderson

Jun-2014
/ Literary

Love Me Back (Finalist)
Merritt Tierce

Sep-2014
/ Literary

2014

Sea of Hooks (Winner)
Lindsay Hill

Nov-2013
/ General Fiction

Middle Men: Stories (Finalist)
Jim Gavin

Feb-2013
/ General Fiction

Parnucklian for Chocolate (Finalist)
B.H. James

Mar-2013
/ General Fiction

The Maid's Version (Finalist)
Daniel Woodrell

Sep-2013
/ Historical

2013

No One Is Here Except All of Us (Winner)
Ramona Ausubel

Feb-2012
/ Historical

2012

You Know When the Men Are Gone (Winner)
Siobhan Fallon

Jan-2011
/ General Fiction

2011

Stiltsville (Winner)
Susanna Daniel

Aug-2010
/ General Fiction

Tengo Sed (Winner)
James Fleming

Sep-2010
/ General Fiction

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Winner)
Danielle Evans

Oct-2010
/ Literary

Kapitoil (Runner-Up)
Teddy Wayne

Apr-2010
/ General Fiction

2010

Mathilda Savitch (Winner)
Victor Lodato

Sep-2009
/ General Fiction

2009

A Country Called Home (Winner)
Kim Barnes

Oct-2008
/ General Fiction

2008

Lost City Radio (Winner)
Daniel Alarcon

Feb-2007
/ General Fiction

2007

The Brief History of the Dead (Winner)
Kevin Brockmeier

Feb-2006
/ General Fiction

2006

Wounded (Winner)
Percival Everett

Sep-2007
/ Literary

2005

The Daydreaming Boy (Winner)
Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Apr-2004
/ General Fiction

2004

Crescent (Winner)
Diana Abu-Jaber

Apr-2003
/ Romance

2003

My Happy Life (Winner)
Lydia Millet

May-2007
/ Literary

2002

Hell's Bottom, Colorado (Winner)
Laura Pritchett

Oct-2001
/ General Fiction

2001

Spontaneous (Winner)
Diana Wagman

Apr-2011
/ General Fiction

2000

Village of a Million Spirits (Winner)
Ian Macmillan

Apr-2000
/ General Fiction

1999

Tomato Red (Winner)
Daniel Woodrell

Aug-1998
/ Suspense

1998

The Dazzle of Day (Winner)
Molly Gloss

May-1997
/ Fantasy

1997

The Atlas (Winner)
William Vollmann

Apr-1996
/ General Fiction

1996

The Paperboy (Winner)
Pete Dexter

Jan-1995
/ General Fiction

1995

Living To Be A Hundred (Winner)
Robert Boswell

Apr-1994
/ General Fiction

1992

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Winner)
Sandra Cisneros

Apr-1991
/ General Fiction

1991

Animal Dreams (Winner)
Barbara Kingsolver

Jun-1991
/ General Fiction

1990

Tripmaster Monkey (Winner)
Maxine Hong Kingston

Apr-1989
/ General Fiction

If the River Was Whiskey (Winner)
T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

Jun-1989
/ General Fiction

1989

Paris Trout (Winner)
Pete Dexter

Jul-1988
/ General Fiction

Boy Like Astrid's Mother (Winner)
Mae Briskin

Aug-1988
/ General Fiction

1988

Imagining Argentina (Winner)
Lawrence Thornton

Aug-1987
/ General Fiction

1986

Red Baker (Winner)
Robert Ward

Mar-1985
/ Mystery

1985

Stones for Ibarra (Winner)
Harriet Doerr

Jan-1984
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Art of the Essay

Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

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

2018