PEN/Faulkner Award Winners
2013 - Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Saenz
2012 - The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
2011 - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
2010 - War Dances by Sherman Alexie
2009 - Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2008 - The Great Man by Kate Christensen
2007 - Everyman by Philip Roth
2006 - The March by E.L. Doctorow
2005 - War Trash by Ha Jin
2004 - The Early Stories by John Updike
2003 - The Caprices by Sabina Murray
2002 - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
2001 - The Human Stain by Phillip Roth
2000 - Waiting by Ha Jin
1999 - The Hours by Michael Cunningham
1998 - The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor
1997 - Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
1996 - Independence Day by Richard Ford
1995 - Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
1994 - Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
1993 - Postcards by E. Annie Proulx
1992 - Mao II by Don DeLillo
1991 - Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
1990 - Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
1989 - Dusk by James Salter
1988 - World's End by T. Coraghessan Boyle
1987 - Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley
1986 - The Old Forest... by Peter Taylor
1985 - The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
1984 - Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
1983 - Seaview by Toby Olson
1982 - The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
1981 - How German Is It? by Walter Abish
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, administered by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, was established in 1980 by writers to honor their peers. The award is named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization. The award judges, who are themselves writers of fiction, each read more than 250 novels and short story collections published during the calendar year before selecting five outstanding books. The author of the book designated the winner receives $15,000; each of the other nominees receives $5,000.