PEN/Faulkner Award - Fiction (Awarded by PEN/Faulkner Foundation)

Awards List

2022

The Wrong End of the Telescope
(Winner)
Rabih Alameddine

How Beautiful We Were
(Finalist)
Imbolo Mbue

Dear Miss Metropolitan
(Finalist)
Carolyn Ferrell

The President and the Frog
(Finalist)
Carolina De Robertis

Radiant Fugitives
(Finalist)
Nawaaz Ahmed

2021

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
(Winner)
Deesha Philyaw

The Knockout Queen
(Finalist)
Rufi Thorpe

Mother Daughter Widow Wife
(Finalist)
Robin Wasserman

Disappear Doppelganger Disappear
(Finalist)
Matthew Salesses

Scattered Lights: Stories
(Finalist)
Steve Wiegenstein

2020

Sea Monsters
(Winner)
Chloe Aridjis

We Cast a Shadow
(Finalist)
Maurice Carlos Ruffin

The Night Swimmers
(Finalist)
Peter Rock

Where Reasons End
(Finalist)
Yiyun Li

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(Finalist)
Ocean Vuong

2019

Call Me Zebra
(Winner)
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

Don't Skip Out on Me
(Finalist)
Willy Vlautin

The Overstory
(Finalist)
Richard Powers

Tomb of the Unknown Racist
(Finalist)
Blanche Mccrary Boyd

Love War Stories
(Finalist)
Ivelisse Rodriguez

2018

Improvement
(Winner)
Joan Silber

The Dark Dark: Stories
(Finalist)
Samantha Hunt

The Tower of the Antilles
(Finalist)
Achy Obejas

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Finalist)
Jesmyn Ward

In the Distance
(Finalist)
Hernan Diaz

2017

Behold the Dreamers
(Winner)
Imbolo Mbue

What Belongs to You
(Finalist)
Garth Greenwell

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
(Finalist)
Sunil Yapa

Larose
(Finalist)
Louise Erdrich

After Disasters
(Finalist)
Viet Dinh

2016

Delicious Foods
(Winner)
James Hannaham

The Sympathizer
(Finalist)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Water Museum: Stories
(Finalist)
Luis Alberto Urrea

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
(Finalist)
Julie Iromuanya

Mendocino Fire: Stories
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Tallent

2015

Preparation for the Next Life
(Winner)
Atticus Lish

Dept. of Speculation
(Finalist)
Jenny Offill

Prayers for the Stolen
(Finalist)
Jennifer Clement

Song of the Shank
(Finalist)
Jeffery Renard Allen

Station Eleven
(Finalist)
Emily St. John Mandel

2014

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
(Winner)
Karen Joy Fowler

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
(Finalist)
Percival Everett

Fools
(Finalist)
Joan Silber

Search Party: Stories of Rescue
(Finalist)
Valerie Trueblood

At Night We Walk in Circles
(Finalist)
Daniel Alarcon

2013

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
(Winner)
Benjamin Alire Saenz

Threats
(Finalist)
Amelia Gray

Hold It 'Til It Hurts
(Finalist)
T. Geronimo Johnson

Kind One
(Finalist)
Laird Hunt

2012

The Buddha in the Attic
(Winner)
Julie Otsuka

We Others
(Finalist)
Steven Millhauser

Lost Memory of Skin
(Finalist)
Russell Banks

The Angel Esmeralda
(Finalist)
Don DeLillo

The Artist of Disappearance
(Finalist)
Anita Desai

2011

The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
(Winner)
Deborah Eisenberg

Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
(Finalist)
Brad Watson

A Visit from the Goon Squad
(Finalist)
Jennifer Egan

Lord of Misrule
(Finalist)
Jaimy Gordon

2010

War Dances
(Winner)
Sherman Alexie

Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Lorraine M. Lopez

The Lacuna
(Finalist)
Barbara Kingsolver

2009

Netherland
(Winner)
Joseph O'Neill

A Person of Interest
(Finalist)
Susan Choi

Lush Life
(Finalist)
Richard Price

Ms. Hempel Chronicles
(Finalist)
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Serena
(Finalist)
Ron Rash

2008

The Great Man
(Winner)
Kate Christensen

Chemistry and Other Stories
(Finalist)
Ron Rash

The Gateway
(Finalist)
T.M. McNally

2007

Everyman
(Winner)
Philip Roth

All Aunt Hagar's Children
(Finalist)
Edward P. Jones

2006

The March
(Winner)
E.L. Doctorow

The Chrysanthemum Palace
(Finalist)
Bruce Wagner

I Got Somebody in Staunton
(Finalist)
William Henry Lewis

Last Night
(Finalist)
James Salter

A Sudden Country
(Finalist)
Karen Fisher

2005

War Trash
(Winner)
Ha Jin

Prisoners of War
(Finalist)
Steve Yarbrough

The Dew Breaker
(Finalist)
Edwidge Danticat

Gilead
(Finalist)
Marilynne Robinson

2004

Early Stories
(Winner)
John Updike

A Distant Shore
(Finalist)
Caryl Phillips

Elroy Nights
(Finalist)
Frederick Barthelme

Old School
(Finalist)
Tobias Wolff

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
(Finalist)
Z.Z. Packer

2003

The Caprices
(Winner)
Sabina Murray

Little Casino
(Finalist)
Gilbert Sorrentino

2002

Bel Canto
(Winner)
Ann Patchett

The Death of Vishnu
(Finalist)
Manil Suri

The Corrections
(Finalist)
Jonathan Franzen

2001

Human Stain
(Winner)
Philip Roth

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
(Finalist)
Michael Chabon

Harry Gold
(Finalist)
Millicent Dillon

2000

Waiting
(Winner)
Ha Jin

Siam: Or, The Woman Who Shot a Man
(Finalist)
Lily Tuck

Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies
(Finalist)
Ken Kalfus

1999

The Hours
(Winner)
Michael Cunningham

Cloudsplitter
(Finalist)
Russell Banks

The Poisonwood Bible
(Finalist)
Barbara Kingsolver

1998

The Bear Comes Home
(Winner)
Rafi Zabor

Because They Wanted To
(Finalist)
Mary Gaitskill

Ordinary Seaman
(Finalist)
Francisco Goldman

1997

Women in Their Beds
(Winner)
Gina Berriault

1996

Independence Day
(Winner)
Richard Ford

1995

Snow Falling on Cedars
(Winner)
David Guterson

1994

Operation Shylock: a Confession
(Winner)
Philip Roth

1993

Postcards
(Winner)
Annie Proulx

1992

Mao II
(Winner)
Don DeLillo

1991

Philadelphia Fire
(Winner)
John Edgar Wideman

1990

Billy Bathgate
(Winner)
E.L. Doctorow

1989

Dusk and Other Stories
(Winner)
James Salter

1988

World's End
(Winner)
T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

1987

Soldiers in Hiding
(Winner)
Richard Wiley

1986

Old Forest and Other Stories
(Winner)
Peter Taylor

1985

The Barracks Thief
(Winner)
Tobias Wolff

1984

Sent for You Yesterday
(Winner)
John Edgar Wideman

1983

Seaview
(Winner)
Toby Olson

1982

Seaview
(Winner)
Toby Olson

1981

The Chaneysville Incident
(Winner)
David Bradley

1980

How German Is It?
(Winner)
Walter Abish

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