PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to an American author. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receive US$5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, DC 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."
The award was first given in 1981.
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. Doctrow, 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