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. 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

External links

• PEN/Faulkner Foundation