PEN/Hemingway Award

Established by Mary Hemingway. Selected by a panel of three distinguished authors. Awarded to an author who has not previously published a work of fiction.

2001 - Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin
2000 - An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
1999 - Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
1998 - Homestead by Rosina Lippi
1997 - A Private State by Charlotte Bacon
1996 - Ocean of Words by Ha Jin
1995 - Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
1994 - The Grass Dancer by Susan Power
1993 - The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb
1992 - Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones
1991 - Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
1990 - Maps to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper
1989 - The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard
1988 - The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
1987 - Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
1986 - Tongues of Flame by Mary Ward Brown
1985 - Lady's Time by Alan V. Hewat
1984 - Dreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys
1983 - During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
1982 - Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
1981 - Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
1980 - Household Words by Joan Silber
1979 - Mom Kills Kids and Self by Alan Saperstein
1978 - Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch
1977 - A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien
1976 - Speedboat by Renata Adler
1975 - Parthian Shot by Lloyd Little