PEN / Faulkner Award
The PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction is an annual award given by the PEN / Faulkner Foundation and endowed with $ 15,000 to an American author. The PEN / Faulkner Award has been presented since 1981 and is based on a donation from the Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner .
Winner since 1981
- 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
- 1987 Richard Wiley , Soldiers in Hiding
- 1988 TC Boyle , World's End
- 1989 James Salter , Dusk
- 1990 EL Doctorow , Billy Bathgate
- 1991 John Edgar Wideman , Philadelphia Fire
- 1992 Don DeLillo , Mao II
- 1993 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 EL Doctorow , The March
- 2007 Philip Roth , Everyman
- 2008 Kate Christensen , The Great Man
- 2009 Joseph O'Neill , Netherland (German: Netherlands )
- 2010 Sherman Alexie , War Dances
- 2011 Deborah Eisenberg , The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
- 2012 Julie Otsuka , The Buddha in the Attic (German: What we dreamed of )
- 2013 Benjamin Alire Sáenz , Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (German: Everything begins and ends in the Kentucky Club )
- 2014 Karen Joy Fowler , We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- 2015 Atticus Lish , Preparation for the Next Life
- 2016 James Hannaham , Delicious Foods
- 2017 Imbolo Mbue , Behold the Dreamers
- 2018 Joan Silver , Improvement