The PEN/Faulkner Award lets writers award their peers for excellence in writing. A panel of three American novelists judge over two hundred entries each year. It is named after Pulitzer Prize for Literature winner and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner, and associated with the international writers’ organization PEN. The award is worth $15,000.
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 Ann Patchett
2001 – The Human Stain Philip Roth
2000 – Waiting Ha Jin
1999 – The Hours Michael Cunningham
1998 – The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor
1997 – Women in Their Beds Gina Berriault
1996 – Independence Day Richard Ford
1995 – Snow Falling on CedarsDavid Guterson
1994 – Operation Shylock Philip Roth
1993 – Postcards E. Annie Proulx
1992 – Mao II Don DeLillo
1991 – Philadelphia Fire John Edgar Wideman
1990 – Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow
1989 – Dusk James Salter
1988 – World’s End T. Coraghessan Boyle
1987 – Soldiers in Hiding Richard Wiley
1986 – The Old Forest… Peter Taylor
1985 – The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff
1984 – Sent For You Yesterday John Edgar Wideman
1983 – Seaview Toby Olson
1982 – The Chaneysville Incident David Bradley
1981 – How German Is It? Walter Abish
