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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States.

Awards for 2011

1. PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Past Winners

1. 2010

   
   War Dances Sherman Alexie

   

   Used Hardcover $9.50
   

2. 2009

   
   Netherland Joseph O'Neill

   

   Used Hardcover $4.50
   

3. 2008

   
   The Great Man Kate Christensen

   

   Used Trade Paper $3.95
   

4. 2007

   
   Everyman: A Novel Philip Roth

   

   Used Trade Paper $5.95
   

5. 2006

   
   The March E L Doctorow

   

   Used Trade Paper $4.50
   

6. 2005

   
   War Trash Ha Jin Used Trade Paper $4.95
   

7. 2004

   
   The Early Stories: 1953-1975 John Updike

   

   Used Hardcover $10.50
   

8. 2003

   
   The Caprices Sabina Murray Used Trade Paper $5.95
   

9. 2002

   
   Bel Canto Ann Patchett Used Trade Paper $5.95
   

10. 2001

    
    The Human Stain Philip Roth Used Hardcover $8.95
    

11. 2000

    
    Waiting Ha Jin

    

    Used Hardcover $5.50
    

12. 1998

    
    The Bear Comes Home Rafi Zabor Used Trade Paper $8.50
    

13. 1997

    
    Women in Their Beds: New and... Gina Berriault Used Trade Paper $5.50
    

14. 1995

    
    Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson

    

    Used Trade Paper $1.95
    

15. 1994

    
    Operation Shylock: A Confession Philip Roth Used Trade Paper $8.50
    

16. 1993

    
    Postcards E Annie Proulx

    

    Used Trade Paper $1.50
    

17. 1992

    
    Mao II Don DeLillo

    

    Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

18. 1991

    
    Philadelphia fire :a novel John Edgar Wideman Used Hardcover $1.50
    

19. 1990

    
    Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

20. 1989

    
    Dusk and Other Stories: And Other... James Salter Used Trade Paper $7.95
    

21. 1988

    
    World's End: A Novel T. C. Boyle Used Trade Paper $6.50
    

22. 1987

    
    Soldiers in Hiding (Rediscovery) Richard Wiley Used Trade Paper $6.50
    

23. 1986

    
    The Old Forest and Other Stories Peter Taylor Used Trade Paper $6.95
    

24. 1985

    
    The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

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