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Awards List

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PEN/Faulkner Award

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Walter Abish

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PEN/Faulkner was founded in 1980 by writers to honor their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the U.S. It is named in honor of William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers.

Prize Winners

Winners year-by-year, or publication dates for lists. Click highlighted authors for reference info.

1981:

Walter Abish, How German Is It?

1982:

David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident

1983:

Toby Olson, Seaview

1984:

John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday

1985:

Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief

1986:

Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories

1987:

Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding

1988:

T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End

1989:

James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories

1990:

E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate

1991:

John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire

1992:

Don DeLillo, Mao II

1993:

E. Annie Proulx, Postcards

1994:

Philip Roth, Operation Shylock

1995:

David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

1996:

Richard Ford, Independence Day

1997:

Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds

1998:

Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home

1999:

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

2000:

Ha Jin, Waiting

2001:

Philip Roth, The Human Stain

2002:

Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2003:

Sabina Murray, The Caprices

2004:

John Updike, The Early Stories

2005:

Ha Jin, War Trash

2006:

E.L. Doctorow, The March

2007:

Philip Roth, Everyman

2008:

Kate Christensen, The Great Man

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