PEN/Faulkner Award Winners by the Year

Everything Begins and Ends At the Kentucky Club

2013 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Everything Begins and Ends At the Kentucky Club

by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders—real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight—entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks… read more

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The Buddha In the Attic

2012 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Buddha In the Attic

by Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel, When the Emperor was Divine, and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She lives… read more

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War Dances

2010 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

War Dances

by Sherman Alexie

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Netherland

2009 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Netherland

by Joseph O'neill

Netherland (2008) is a critically acclaimed novel by Joseph O'Neill. It concerns the life of a Dutchman living in New York in the wake of the September 11 attacks who takes up cricket and starts playing at the Staten Island Cricket Club.

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The Great Man

2008 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Great Man

by Kate Christensen

From the acclaimed author of The Epicure's Lament, a novel of literary rivalry in which two competing biographers collide in their quest for the truth about a great artist.Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," was a New York city painter of the heroic gene… read more

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Everyman

2007 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Everyman

by Philip Roth

In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice … read more

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The March

2006 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The March

by E L Doctorow

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the S… read more

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War Trash

2005 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

War Trash

by Ha Jin

War Trash is a novel by the Chinese author Ha Jin, who has long lived in the United States and who writes in English. It takes the form of a memoir written by the fictional character Yu Yuan, a man who eventually becomes a soldier in the Chinese Peop… read more

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The Early Stories

2004 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Early Stories

by John Updike

A grand collection of John Updike's inimitable early stories.Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up d… read more

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The Caprices

2003 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Caprices

by Sabina Murray

From an acclaimed young author of Filipino background comes this history told through individual lives. The Caprices revolves around the Pacific Campaign of World War II. In the wreckage of bombed cities and overcrowded prison camps, there were no w… read more

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Bel Canto

2002 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett

PerfectBound e-book exclusive: "Friendship and Love," an interview with Ann Patchett.A prolonged hostage crisis in the lavish home of a South American politician turns into something quite different as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds a… read more

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The Human Stain

2001 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Human Stain

by Philip Roth

The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth Human Stain is the second studio album released by the hard rock band Cornerstone.

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Waiting

2000 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Waiting

by Ha Jin

Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin. He was born in Liaoning, China. The novel, Waiting , won the National Book Awards in 1999. This moving and deeply ironic novel centers on the lives of three people. … read more

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The Hours

1999 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Hours

by Michael Cunningham

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The Bear Comes Home

1998 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Bear Comes Home

by Rafi Zabor

The Bear Comes Home is a novel written by Rafi Zabor. It won the 1998 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. It was selected as an alternate for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The novel tells the story of an alto saxophone-playing bear, his involvement… read more

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Independence Day

1996 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Independence Day

by Richard Ford

Richard Ford is the author of two story collections and five novels.

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Snow Falling On Cedars

1995 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Snow Falling On Cedars

by David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars is a novel written by American writer David Guterson. Guterson, who at the time was a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over a ten-year period. Because of the success of the novel, however, he quit his job and … read more

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Operation Shylock

1994 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Operation Shylock

by Philip Roth

Operation Shylock: A Confession is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993. The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk. At the sam… read more

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Postcards

1993 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Postcards

by Proulx E Annie

Postcards may mean: The plural of postcard Postcards (TV series), an Australian magazine television series Postcards (novel), a novel by E. Annie Proulx "Postcards", a song by the Blizzards from their album Domino Effect "Postcards&quo… read more

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Mao II

1992 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Mao II

by Don Delillo

Mao II, published in 1991, is Don DeLillo's tenth novel. It was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992. The title is derived from a series of Andy Warhol silkscreen prints depicting Mao Zedong. This book was dedicated to DeLillo's edito… read more

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Philadelphia Fire

1991 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Philadelphia Fire

by John Edgar Wideman

From “one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing kille… read more

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Billy Bathgate

1990 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Billy Bathgate

by E L Doctorow

Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize . The story is told in the fir… read more

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Dusk

1989 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

Dusk

by James Salter

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The Old Forest

1986 Winner PEN/Faulkner Award

The Old Forest

by Peter Taylor

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