PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to read from their works at the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings, "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.

The award was first given in 1980.

Fiction award winners

*2008 Kate Christensen, "The Great Man"
*2007 Philip Roth, "Everyman"
*2006 E.L. Doctorow, "The March"
*2005 Ha Jin, "War Trash"
*2004 John Updike, "The Early Stories"
*2003 Sabina Murray, "The Caprices"
*2002 Ann Patchett, "Bel Canto"
*2001 Philip Roth, "The Human Stain"
*2000 Ha Jin, "Waiting"
*1999 Michael Cunningham, "The Hours"
*1998 Rafi Zabor, "The Bear Comes Home"
*1997 Gina Berriault, "Women in Their Beds"
*1996 Richard Ford, " Independence Day"
*1995 David Guterson, "Snow Falling on Cedars"
*1994 Philip Roth, "Operation Shylock"
*1993 E. Annie Proulx, "Postcards"
*1992 Don DeLillo, "Mao II"
*1991 John Edgar Wideman, "Philadelphia Fire"
*1990 E.L. Doctorow, "Billy Bathgate"
*1989 James Salter, "Dusk"
*1988 T. Coraghessan Boyle, "World's End"
*1987 Richard Wiley, "Soldiers in Hiding"
*1986 Peter Taylor, "The Old Forest"
*1985 Tobias Wolff, "The Barracks Thief"
*1984 John Edgar Wideman, "Sent for You Yesterday"
*1983 Toby Olson, "Seaview"
*1982 David Bradley, "The Chaneysville Incident"
*1981 Walter Abish, "How German Is It"
*1980 Bryan Aguiar, "Mister Pothead"

External links

* [http://www.penfaulkner.org/ PEN/Faulkner Foundation]
* [http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_roll:PEN/Faulkner_Award_for_Fiction The Most Honored PEN/Faulkner Award finalists]