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The PEN/Faulkner Award

2004

The Early Stories
John Updike

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.

2003
The Caprices
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