PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Named for its founder, William Faulkner, the PEN/Faulkner Award is given yearly to the best work of fiction by an American author. Faulkner used his Nobel Prize funds to create the award in 1980. The sponsoring award organization is PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists) an international organization of writers. Started in 1980, the PEN/Faulkner Award winners and nominees are selected by a judging panel of three noted writers of fiction.

  1. 1981
    How German is It: Wie Deutsch Ist Es: A Novel
    by Walter Abish

  2. 1982
    The Chaneysville Incident
    by David Bradley

  3. 1983
    ?
    Seaview
    by Toby Olson

  4. 1984
    Sent for You Yesterday
    by John Edgar Wideman

  5. 1985
    ?
    The Barracks Thief
    by Tobias Wolff

  6. 1986
    The Old Forest and Other Stories
    by Peter Taylor

  7. 1987
    ?
    Soldiers in Hiding
    by Richard Wiley

  8. 1988
    World's End (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by T.C. Boyle

  9. 1989
    Dusk and Other Stories
    by James Salter

  10. 1990
    Billy Bathgate
    by E. L. Doctorow

  11. 1991
    Philadelphia Fire
    by John Edgar Wideman

  12. 1992
    Mao II: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo

  13. 1993
    ?
    POSTCARDS
    by Proulx

  14. 1994

  15. 1995
    Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
    by David Guterson

  16. 1996
    Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)
    by Richard Ford

  17. 1997
    Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
    by Gina Berriault

  18. 1998
    The Bear Comes Home
    by Rafi Zabor

  19. 1999
    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

  20. 2000
    Waiting: A Novel
    by Ha Jin

  21. 2001
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth

  22. 2002
    Bel Canto
    by Ann Patchett

  23. 2003
    The Caprices
    by Sabina Murray

  24. 2004
    The Early Stories: 1953-1975
    by John Updike

  25. 2005
    War Trash
    by Ha Jin

  26. 2006
    The March: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

  27. 2007
    Everyman
    by Philip Roth

  28. 2008
    The Great Man
    by Kate Christensen

  29. 2009
    Netherland: A Novel
    by Joseph O'Neill

  30. 2010
    War Dances
    by Sherman Alexie

  31. 2011
    The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
    by Deborah Eisenberg

  32. 32.
    The Buddha in the Attic
    by Julie Otsuka

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Comments

Updates — 1 year ago

Added 2010 and 2011 winners


Untitled — 4 years ago

Added this year’s winner, Netherland.


Untitled — 4 years ago

William Faulkner did not use his winnings to create the award in 1980 – or to do anything else in 1980, as he had been dead for quite a while.




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