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PEN/Faulkner Award – Fiction Winners

Browse PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winners and nominees by year. This archive follows one award category across the full PEN/Faulkner Award history.

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction Cross-year archive

2024

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2024 award year.

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Winner

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Jimenez, Claire

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Mar-2023 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

2023

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2023 award year.

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Winner

The Book of Goose

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2022 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

2022

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2022 award year.

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Winner

The Wrong End of the Telescope

Alameddine, Rabih

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2021 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Dear Miss Metropolitan

Ferrell, Carolyn

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2021 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

How Beautiful We Were

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2021 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The President and the Frog

De Robertis, Carolina

Standalone · Literary

Aug-2021 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Radiant Fugitives

Standalone · Literary

Aug-2021 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2021

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2021 award year.

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Winner

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Philyaw, Deesha

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2020 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Disappear Doppelganger Disappear

Salesses, Matthew

Standalone · Literary

Aug-2020 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The Knockout Queen

Standalone · Literary

May-2020 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Mother Daughter Widow Wife

Wasserman, Robin

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2020 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Scattered Lights: Stories

Wiegenstein, Steve

Standalone · Literary

Nov-2020 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2020

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2020 award year.

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Winner

Sea Monsters

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

The Night Swimmers

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

We Cast a Shadow

Ruffin, Maurice Carlos

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Where Reasons End

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2019 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2019

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2019 award year.

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Winner

Call Me Zebra

Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Azareen

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2018 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Don't Skip Out on Me

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2018 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Love War Stories

Rodriguez, Ivelisse

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2018 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The Overstory

Powers, Richard

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2018 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Tomb of the Unknown Racist

Boyd, Blanche Mccrary

Standalone · Literary

May-2018 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2018

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2018 award year.

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Winner

Improvement

Standalone · Literary

Nov-2017 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

The Dark Dark: Stories

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2017 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

In the Distance

Standalone · Historical

Oct-2017 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Standalone · Fantasy

Sep-2017 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The Tower of the Antilles

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2017 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2017

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2017 award year.

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Winner

Behold the Dreamers

Standalone · Literary

Aug-2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

After Disasters

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Larose

Erdrich, Louise

Standalone · Literary

May-2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

What Belongs to You

Greenwell, Garth

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2016 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2016

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2016 award year.

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Winner

Delicious Foods

Hannaham, James

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Mendocino Fire: Stories

Tallent, Elizabeth

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

Iromuanya, Julie

Standalone · Literary

May-2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The Sympathizer

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

The Water Museum: Stories

Urrea, Luis Alberto

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2015

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2015 award year.

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Winner

Preparation for the Next Life

Standalone · Psychological Suspense

Nov-2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Dept. of Speculation

Standalone · Psychological Suspense

Feb-2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Prayers for the Stolen

Clement, Jennifer

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Song of the Shank

Allen, Jeffery Renard

Standalone · Historical

Jun-2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Station Eleven

Mandel, Emily St. John

Standalone · Science Fiction

Sep-2014 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2014

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2014 award year.

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Winner

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Fowler, Karen Joy

Standalone · Literary

Jun-2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

At Night We Walk in Circles

Alarcon, Daniel

Standalone · Literary

Nov-2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Fools

Standalone · Literary

May-2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Everett, Percival

Standalone · Literary

Feb-2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Search Party: Stories of Rescue

Trueblood, Valerie

Standalone · Literary

Jul-2013 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

2013

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction results for the 2013 award year.

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Winner

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Standalone · Literary

Nov-2012 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction winner

Finalist

Hold It 'Til It Hurts

Johnson, T. Geronimo

Standalone · Literary

Sep-2012 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

Finalist

Threats

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2012 PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction finalist

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