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The New Yorker Fiction Forum

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Click here to see what's happening in the fiction of each issue of The New Yorker.

Last Five Issues: ____________________________

2013 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Claire Vaye Watkins' Battleborn
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds
  • Pulitzer Prize
    • Winner: April
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: May
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: May
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: June
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: June
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: October
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: October
  • Giller Prize
    • Shadow Winner: November
    • Winner: November
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: November
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2012 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision
  • The Story Prize
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Teju Cole: Open City
  • Pulitzer Prize
    • Winner: No award given
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Madeline Miller: The Song of Achilles
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Jon McGregor: Even the Dogs
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mo Yan
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2011 Book Awards

  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Anthony Doerr's Memory Wall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: Edith Pearlman
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • The Story Prize
    • Winner: Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • PEN/Malamud Award
    • Winner: Nam Le & Edward P. Jones
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • Best Translated Book Award
    • Winner: Attila Bartis: Tranquility
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
    • Winner: Michael Thomas's Man Gone Down
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

PEN/Faulkner Award

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded to the “the author of the best American work of fiction that year.”  It doesn’t have the extensive history of, say, the Pulitzer — the first award was given in 1981 — but it is one of America’s most prestigious literary awards, along with the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award.  Faulkner has his name tied to the award because it is in part inspired by his generosity when he donated his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create a fund to support fiction writers.

Here is a link to the PEN/Faulkner homepage.

Click here for a list of past winners.

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