PEN/Faulkner Awards and Nominees, 1981-2011

Submitted by burneyfan on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:39
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  1. 2011
  2. Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  3. Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
  4. Jaimy Moore, Lord of Misrule
  5. Eric Puchner, Model Home
  6. Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
  8. 2010
  9. Sherman Alexie, War Dances
  10. Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
  11. Lorraine M. Lopez, Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories
  12. Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
  13. Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor
  15. 2009
  16. Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
  17. Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Ms. Hempel Chronicles
  18. Susan Choi, A Person of Interest
  19. Richard Price, Lush Life
  20. Ron Rash, Serina
  22. 2008
  23. Kate Christensen, The Great Man
  24. Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
  25. David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
  26. T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories
  27. Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories
  29. 2007
  30. Philip Roth, Everyman
  31. Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum
  32. Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
  33. Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
  34. Edward P. Jones, All Aunt Hagar’s Children
  36. 2006
  37. E.L. Doctorow, The March
  38. Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country
  39. William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton
  40. James Salter, Last Night
  41. Bruce Wagner, The Chrysanthemum Place
  43. 2005
  44. Ha Jin, War Trash
  45. Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
  46. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
  47. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
  48. Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War
  50. 2004
  51. John Updike, The Early Stories 1953–1975
  52. Frederick Barthemle, Elroy Nights
  53. ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
  54. Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
  55. Tobias Wolff, Old School
  57. 2003
  58. Sabina Murray, The Caprices
  59. Peter Cameron, The City of Your Final Destination
  60. William Kennedy, Roscoe
  61. Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
  62. Gilbert Sorrentino, Little Casino
  64. 2002
  65. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
  66. Karen Joy Fowler, Sister Noon
  67. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  68. Claire Messud, The Hunters
  69. Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu
  71. 2001
  72. Philip Roth, The Human Stain
  73. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  74. Millicent Dillon, Harry Gold
  75. Denis Johnson, The Name of the World
  76. Mona Simpson, Off Keck Road
  78. 2000
  79. Ha Jin, Waiting
  80. Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
  81. Ken Kalfus, PU-239
  82. Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle
  83. Lily Tuck, Siam
  85. 1999
  86. Michael Cunningham, The Hours
  87. Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
  88. Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
  89. Brian Morton, Starting Out in the Evening
  90. Richard Selzer, The Doctor Stories
  92. 1998
  93. Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
  94. Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
  95. Rilla Askew, The Mercy Seat
  96. Mary Gaitskill, Because They Wanted To
  97. Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman
  99. 1997
  100. Gina Berriault, Women in their Beds
  101. Daniel Akst, St. Burl’s Obituary
  102. Kathleen Cambor, The Book of Mercy
  103. Ron Hansen, Atticus
  104. Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
  106. 1996
  107. Richard Ford, Independence Day
  108. Madison Smart Bell, All Souls’ Rising
  109. William Gass, The Tunnel
  110. Claire Messud, When the World Was Steady
  111. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress
  113. 1995
  114. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
  115. Frederich Busch, The Children in the Woods
  116. Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River
  117. Joyce Carol Oates, What I Lived For
  118. Joanna Scott, Various Antidotes
  120. 1994
  121. Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
  122. Stanley Elkin, Van Gogh’s Room at Arles
  123. Dagoberto Gilb, The Magic of Blood
  124. Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
  125. Kate Wheeler, Not Where I Started From
  127. 1993
  128. E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
  129. Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
  130. Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens
  131. Maureen Howard, Natural History
  132. Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead
  134. 1992
  135. Don DeLillo, Mao II
  136. Stephen Dixon, Frog
  137. Paul Gervais, Extraordinary People
  138. Allan Gurganus, White People
  139. Bradford Morrow, The Almanac Branch
  141. 1991
  142. John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
  143. Paul Auster, The Music of Chance
  144. Joanne Meschery, A Gentleman”s Guide to the Frontier
  145. Steven Millhauser, The Barnum Museum
  146. Joanna Scott, Arrogance
  148. 1990
  149. E. L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
  150. Russell Banks, Affliction
  151. Molly Gloss, The Jump-Off Creek
  152. Josephine Jacobsen, On the Island
  153. Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn
  155. 1989
  156. James Salter, Dusk
  157. Mary McGarry Morris, Vanished
  158. Thomas Savage, The Corner of Rife and Pacific
  159. Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Death of Methuselah
  161. 1988
  162. T. Coraghessan Boyle, World’s End
  163. Richard Bausch, Spirits
  164. Alice McDermott, That Night
  165. Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
  166. Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina
  168. 1987
  169. Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
  170. Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
  171. Charles Johnson, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  172. Janet Kauffman, Collaborators
  173. Maureen Howard, Expensive Habits
  175. 1986
  176. Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
  177. William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
  178. Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
  179. Hugh Nissenson, The Tree of Life
  180. Helen Norris, The Christmas Wife
  181. Grace Paley, Later the Same Day
  183. 1985
  184. Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
  185. Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  186. Donald Hays, The Dixie Association
  187. David Leavitt, Family Dancing
  188. James Purdy, On Glory’s Courses
  190. 1984
  191. John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
  192. Ron Hansen, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  193. William Kennedy, Ironweed
  194. Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River
  195. Bernard Malamud, The Stories
  196. Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy
  198. 1983
  199. Toby Olson, Seaview
  200. Maureen Howard, Grace Abounding
  201. Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
  202. George Steiner, The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
  203. Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  204. William S. Wilson, Birthplace
  206. 1982
  207. David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
  208. Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
  209. Richard Bausch, Take Me Back
  210. Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories
  211. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
  212. Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
  214. 1981
  215. Walter Abish, How German Is It?
  216. Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus
  217. Walker Percy, The Second Coming
  218. Gilbert Sorrentino, Aberration of Starlight
  219. John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
Author Comments: 

6/14/11: Added 2011 nominees and winner

First listed is the winner unless otherwise noted.

From the PEN/Faulkner Foundation website: One of the foremost prizes for literary fiction in the nation, The PEN/Faulkner Award honors the best published works of fiction by American writers in a calendar year. Three judges, writers themselves, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country.

I've read very few of these, I see...

burneyfan05/19/2009

First book listed in each year is the winner.