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 1981.

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Fiction award winners

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Fiction award winners

★ 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 T. Coraghessan Boyle, ''World's End''

★ 1989 James Salter, ''Dusk''

★ 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''

External links

★ PEN/Faulkner Foundation

★ The Most Honored PEN/Faulkner Award finalists