O. Henry Prize

The O. Henry Award ( O. Henry Award ) is an award annually Literary Award for English-language short stories that were published in Zähljahr in the United States or Canada. The prize is named after the American writer O. Henry and has been awarded since 1919 .

Prize Winner - First Prize

• 2019: Weike Wang , Omakase ; Rachel Kondo , Girl of Few Seasons ; Tessa Hadley , Funny Little Snake
• 2018: Jo Ann Beard , The Tomb of Wrestling ; Marjorie Celona , Counterblast
• 2017: Michelle Huneven , Too Good to Be True ; Amit Majmudar , Secret Lives of the Detainees ; Fiona McFarlane , Buttony
• 2016: Asako Serizawa , Train to Harbin ; Frederic Tuten , Winter, 1965 ; Elizabeth Genovise , Irises
• 2015: Dina Nayeri , A Ride Out of Phrao ; Elizabeth McCracken , Birdsong from the Radio ; Christopher Merkner , cabins
• 2014: Mark Haddon , The Gun ; Kristen Iskandrian , The Inheritors ; Laura van den Berg , Grandpa-locka
• 2013: Deborah Eisenberg , Your Duck Is My Duck ; Kelly Link , The Summer People ; Andrea Barrett , The Particles
• 2012: Yiyun Li , Kindness ; Alice Munro , Corrie
• 2011: Lynn Freed , Sunshine ; Matthew Neill Null , Something You Can't Live Without ; Jim Shepard , Your Fate Hurtles Down at You
• 2010: Daniyal Mueenuddin , A Spoiled Man ; James Lasdun , Oh, Death ; William Trevor : The Woman of the House
• 2009: Graham Joyce , An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen ; Junot Díaz , Wildwood
• 2008: Alexi Zentner , Touch ; Alice Munro , What Do You Want To Know For? ; William Trevor , Folie à Deux
• 2007: Eddie Chuculate , Galveston Bay, 1826 ; William Trevor , The Room
• 2006: Edward P. Jones , Old Boys, Old Girls ; Deborah Eisenberg , Window ; Alice Munro , Passion
• 2005: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Refuge in London ; Sherman Alexie , What You Pawn I Will Redeem ; Elizabeth Stuckey-French , Mudlavia
• 2004: no award
• 2003: Denis Johnson , Train Dreams ; AS Byatt , The Thing in the Forest ; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , The American Embassy
• 2002: Kevin Brockmeier , The Ceiling
• 2001: Mary Swan , The Deep
• 2000: John Edgar Wideman , Weight
• 1999: Peter Baida , A Nurse's Story
• 1998: Lorrie Moore , People Like That Are the Only People Here
• 1997: Mary Gordon , City Life
• 1996: Stephen King , The Man in the Black Suit (see In the Cabinet of Death )
• 1995: Cornelia Nixon , The Women Come and Go
• 1994: Alison Baker , Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight
• 1993: Thom Jones , The Pugilist at Rest
• 1992: Cynthia Ozick , Putter Knife Paired
• 1991: John Updike , A Sandstone Farmhouse
• 1990: Leo E. Litwak , The Eleventh Edition
• 1989: Ernest J. Finney , Peacocks
• 1988: Raymond Carver , Errand
• 1987: Louise Erdrich , Fleur ; Joyce Johnson , The Children's Wing
• 1986: Alice Walker , Kindred Spirits
• 1985: Stuart Dybek , Hot Ice ; Jane Smiley , Lily
• 1984: Cynthia Ozick , Rosa ; Gordon Lish , For Jeromé - with Love and Kisses
• 1983: Raymond Carver , A Small, Good Thing
• 1982: Susan Kenney , Facing Front
• 1981: Cynthia Ozick , The Shawl
• 1980: Saul Bellow , A Silver Dish
• 1979: Gordon Weaver , Getting Serious ; Anne Leaton , The Passion of Marco Z
• 1978: Woody Allen , The Kugelmass episode
• 1977: Shirley Hazzard , A Long Story Short ; Ella Leffland , Last Courtesies
• 1976: Harold Brodkey , His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft
• 1975: Harold Brodkey , A Story in an Almost Classical Mode ; Cynthia Ozick , Usurpation (Other People's Stories)
• 1974: Renata Adler , Brownstone
• 1973: Joyce Carol Oates , The Dead
• 1972: John Batki , Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie
• 1971: Florence M. Hecht , Twin Bed Bridge
• 1970: Robert Hemenway , The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles
• 1969: Bernard Malamud , Man in the Drawer
• 1968: Eudora Welty , The Demonstrators
• 1967: Joyce Carol Oates , In the Region of Ice
• 1966: John Updike , The Bulgarian Poetess
• 1965: Flannery O'Connor , Revelation
• 1964: John Cheever , The Embarkment for Cythera
• 1963: Terry Southern , The Road Out of Axotle ; Flannery O'Connor , Everything That Rises Must Converge ;
• 1962: Katherine Anne Porter , Holiday
• 1961: Tillie Olson , Tell Me a Riddle
• 1960: Lawrence Sargent Hall , The Ledge
• 1959: Peter Taylor , Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
• 1958: Martha Gellhorn , In Sickness as in Health
• 1957: Flannery O'Connor , Greenleaf
• 1956: John Cheever , The Country Husband
• 1955: Jean Stafford , In the Zoo
• 1954: Thomas Mabry , The Indian Feather
• 1953: no award
• 1952: no award
• 1951: Harris Downey , The Hunters
• 1950: Wallace Stegner , The Blue-Winged Teal
• 1949: William Faulkner , A Courtship
• 1948: Truman Capote , Shut a Final Door
• 1947: John Bell Clayton , The White Circle
• 1946: John Mayo Goss , Bird Song
• 1945: Walter van Tilburg Clark , The Wind and the Snow of Winter
• 1944: Irwin Shaw , Walking Wounded
• 1943: Eudora Welty , Livvie Is Back
• 1942: Eudora Welty , The Wide Net
• 1941: Kay Boyle , Defeat
• 1940: Stephen Vincent Benét , Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing
• 1939: William Faulkner , Barn Burning
• 1938: Albert Maltz , The Happiest Man on Earth
• 1937: Stephen Vincent Benét , The Devil and Daniel Webster
• 1936: James Gould Cozzens , Total Stranger
• 1935: Kay Boyle , The White Horses of Vienna
• 1934: Louis Paul , No More Trouble for Jedwick
• 1933: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , Gal Young Un
• 1932: Stephen Vincent Benét , An End to Dreams
• 1931: Wilbur Daniel Steele , Can't Cross Jordan by Myself
• 1930: WR Burnett , Dressing-Up ; William H. John , Neither Jew nor Greek
• 1929: Dorothy Parker , Big Blonde
• 1928: Walter Duranty , The Parrot
• 1927: Roarke Bradford , Child of God
• 1926: Wilbur Daniel Steele , Bubbles
• 1925: Julian Street , Mr. Bisbee's Princess
• 1924: Inez Haynes Irwin , The Spring Flight
• 1923: Edgar Valentine Smith , Prelude
• 1922: Irvin S. Cobb , Snake Doctor
• 1921: Edison Marshall , The Heart of Little Shikara
• 1920: Maxwell Struthers Burt , Each in His Generation
• 1919: Margaret Prescott Montague , England to America

Web links

• The O. Henry Award

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A Spoiled Man . In: The New Yorker, September 15, 2008
2. ↑ The Hollow . In: The Paris Review Issue # 188/2009
3. ^ The Woman of the House . In: The New Yorker, December 15, 2008