Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Winners

Winners

• 1976 – Loyd Little for Parthian Shot
• 1977 – Renata Adler for Speedboat
• 1978 – Darcy O'Brien for A Way of Life, Like Any Other
• 1979 – Reuben Bercovitch for Hasen
• 1980 – Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
• 1981 – Joan Silber for Household Words
• 1982 – Marilynne Robinson for Housekeeping
• 1983 – Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
• 1984 – Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
• 1985 – Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
• 1986 – Alan V. Hewat for Lady's Time
• 1987 – Mary Ward Brown for Tongues of Flame
• 1988 – Lawrence Thornton for Imagining Argentina
• 1989 – Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth
• 1990 – Mark Richard for The Ice at the Bottom of the World
• 1991 – Bernard Cooper for Maps to Anywhere
• 1992 – Louis Begley for Wartime Lies
• 1993 – Edward P. Jones for Lost in the City
• 1994 – Dagoberto Gilb for The Magic of Blood
• 1995 – Susan Power for The Grass Dancer
• 1996 – Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker
• 1997 – Ha Jin for Ocean of Words
• 1998 – Charlotte Bacon for A Private State
• 1999 – Rosina Lippi for Homestead
• 2000 – Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies
• 2001 – Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father
• 2002 – Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil
• 2003 – Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
• 2004 – Jennifer Haigh for Mrs. Kimble
• 2005 – Chris Abani for GraceLand
• 2006 – Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
• 2007 – Ben Fountain for Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
• 2008 - Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End
• 2009 - Michael Dahlie for A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
• 2010 - Brigid Pasulka for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
• 2011 - Brando Skyhorse for The Madonnas of Echo Park
• 2012 - Teju Cole for Open City