Pen/Faulkner Award

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation each year recognizes the best published works of fiction by contemporary American writers. Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honour their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States.

2011 - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, Deborah Eisenberg
2010 - War Dances, Sherman Alexie
2009 - Netherland, Joseph O'Neill
2008 - The Great Man, Kate Christensen
2007 - Everyman, Philip Roth
2006 - The March, E.L. Doctorow
2005 - War Trash, Ha Jin
2004 - The Early Stories, John Updike
2003 - The Caprices, Sabina Murray
2002 - Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
2001 - The Human Stain, Philip Roth
2000 - Waiting, Ha Jin
1999 - The Hours, Michael Cunningham
1998 - The Bear Comes Home, Rafi Zabor
1997 - Women in Their Beds, Gina Berriault
1996 - Independence Day, Richard Ford
1995 - Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
1994 - Operation Shylock, Philip Roth
1993 - Postcards, E. Annie Proulx
1992 - Mao II, Don DeLillo
1991 - Philadelphia Fire, John Edgar Wideman
1990 - Billy Bathgate, E.L. Doctorow
1989 - Dusk and Other Stories, James Salter
1988 - World's End, T. Coraghessan Boyle
1987 - Soldiers in Hiding, Richard Wiley
1986 - The Old Forest and Other Stories, Peter Taylor
1985 - The Barracks Thief, Tobias Wolff
1984 - Sent for You Yesterday, John Edgar Wideman
1983 - Seaview, Toby Olson
1982 - The Chaneysville Incident, David Bradley
1981 - How German is It?, Walter Abish