PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Given each year since 1981 by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation for the year’s best fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents: one winner and four finalists.
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
Netherland
Joseph O’Neill
The other finalists: A Person of Interest; Lush Life; Ms. Hempel Chronicles; Serena.
- 2008
The Great Man
Kate Christensen
The other finalists: Chemistry and Other Stories; The Gateway; The Indian Clerk; The Maytrees.
- 2007
- 2006
- 2005
War Trash
Ha Jin
The other finalists: Gilead; Prisoners of War; The Dew Breaker; The Green Lantern.
- 2004
The Early Stories
John Updike
The other finalists: A Distant Shore; Drinking Coffee Elsewhere; Old School; Elroy Nights.
- 2003
The Caprices
Sabina Murray
The other finalists: Little Casino; Roscoe; The City of Your Final Destination; The Ecstatic.
- 2002
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
The other finalists: Sister Noon; The Corrections; The Death of Vishnu; The Hunters.
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999
- 1998
- 1997
- 1996
Independence Day
Richard Ford
The other finalists: All Souls’ Rising; The Good Negress; The Tunnel; When the World Was Steady.
- 1995
- 1994
Operation Shylock
Philip Roth
The other finalists: Bone; Not Where I Started From; The Magic of Blood; Van Gogh’s Room at Arles.
- 1993
- 1992
Mao II
Don DeLillo
The other finalists: Extraordinary People; Frog; White People.
- 1991
- 1990
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
The other finalists: Affliction; Leaving Brooklyn; On the Island; The Jump-Off Creek.
- 1989
- 1988
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
- 1981
