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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, established in 1980, annually honors an American fiction writer with a $15,000 prize. Located at Washington D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library, the award is funded by grants, contributions, special events and benefit readings.


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
2008
Kate Christensen, The Great Man

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