The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is given each year to the best novel or short story collection by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction.
Below are the past winners. Links are to reviews on The Mookse and the Gripes.
- 2014: Elegey on Kinderklavier, by Arna Bontemps Hemenway
- 2013: We Need New Names, by NoViolet Bulawayo
- 2012: The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
- 2011: Open City, by Teju Cole
- 2010: The Madonnas of Echo Park, by Brando Skyhorse
- 2009: A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, by Brigid Pasulka
- 2008: A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living, by Michael Dahlie
- 2007: Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris
- 2006: Brief Encounters with Che Guervara, by Ben Fountain
- 2005: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, by Yiyun Li
- 2004: Graceland, by Chris Abani
- 2003: Mrs. Kimble, by Jennifer Haigh
- 2002: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W, by Gabriel Brownstein
- 2001: Mary and O’Neill, by Justin Cronin
- 2000: An Obedient Father, by Akhil Sharma
- 1999: Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- 1998: Homestead, by Rosina Lippi
- 1997: A Private State, by Charlotte Bacon
- 1996: Ocean of Words, by Ha Jin
- 1995: Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee
- 1994: The Grass Dancer, by Susan Power
- 1993: The Magic of Blood, by Dagoberto Gilb
- 1992: Lost in the City, by Edward P. Jones
- 1991: Wartime Lies, by Louis Begley
- 1990: Maps to Anywhere, by Bernard Cooper
- 1989: The Ice at the Bottom of the World, by Mark Richard
- 1988: The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton
- 1987: Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton
- 1986: Tongues of Flame, by Mary Ward Brown
- 1985: Lady’s Time, by Alan V. Hewar
- 1984: Dreams of Sleep, by Josephine Humphreys
- 1983: During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba, by Joan Chase
- 1982: Shiloh and Other Stories, by Bobbie Ann Mason
- 1981: Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
- 1980: Household Words, by Joan Silber
- 1979: Mom Kills Kids and Self, by Alan Saperstein
- 1978: Hasen, by Reuben Bercovitch
- 1977: A Way of Life, Like Any Other, by Darcy O’Brien
- 1976: Speedboat, by Renata Adler
- 1975: Parthian Shot, by Loyd Little
