Current and historical winners of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction honors the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year. Three writers are chosen annually by the Board of Directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to serve as judges, ensuring that our awards selection process is free of commercial influence. These judges select an initial longlist of ten books, followed by five finalists, and finally one winner as the “first among equals.” The author of the winning book receives a $15,000 prize. The authors of each of the other finalists receive $5,000.

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2018
• 2017
• 2014
• 2009
• 2006
• 2002
• 2000
• 1999
• 1996
• 1995
• 1905

• 2024

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez  by  Claire Jimenez

• 2023

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  The Book of Goose  by  Yiyun Li

• 2022

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  The Wrong End of the Telescope  by  Rabih Alameddine

• 2018

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Improvement  by  Joan Silber

• 2017

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Behold the Dreamers  by  Imbolo Mbue

• 2014

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves  by  Karen Joy Fowler

• 2009

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Netherland  by  Joseph O'Neill

• 2006

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  The March  by  E.L. Doctorow

• 2002

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Bel Canto  by  Ann Patchett

• 2000

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Waiting  by  Ha Jin

• 1999

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  The Hours  by  Michael Cunningham

• 1996

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Independence Day  by  Richard Ford

• 1995

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  Snow Falling On Cedars  by  David Guterson

• 1905

  
  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:
  War Trash  by  Ha Jin