The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Judges read citations for each of the finalists' works at the presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."

Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner Award following the controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN America voted for a boycott on the grounds that the award had become too commercial.

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

1980s

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! rowspan="5" |1981

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|How German Is It

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|Aberration of Starlight

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! rowspan="6" |1982

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|Sixty Stories

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|Take Me Back

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|Ellis Island and Other Stories

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|Housekeeping

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! rowspan="6" |1983

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|Seaview

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|Grace Abounding

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|Shiloh and Other Stories

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|Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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|Birthplace

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! rowspan="6" |1984

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|Sent for You Yesterday

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|Ironweed

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|At the Bottom of the River

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! rowspan="5" |1985

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|Stones for Ibarra

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|Family Dancing

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|On Glory's Course

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! rowspan="6" |1986

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|Carpenter's Gothic

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|Lonesome Dove

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|Later the Same Day

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! rowspan="5" |1987

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|Soldiers in Hiding

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|Expensive Habits

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|Collaborators

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! rowspan="5" |1988

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|World's End

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|Spirits, And Other Stories

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|That Night

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|Imagining Argentina

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! rowspan="4" |1989

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|Dusk and Other Stories

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|Vanished

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1990s

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|When The World Was Steady

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|All Souls' Rising

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! rowspan="5" |1997

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|Women in Their Beds

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|St. Burl's Obituary

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|Atticus

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! rowspan="5" |1998

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|Because They Wanted To

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! rowspan="5" |1999

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|Cloudsplitter

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|Starting Out in the Evening

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2000s

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|Twilight of the Superheroes

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|All Aunt Hagar's Children

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! rowspan="5" |2008

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|Chemistry and Other Stories

|Shortlist

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! rowspan="5" |2009

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|Netherland

|Winner

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|Ms. Hempel Chronicles

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|Lush Life

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|Serena

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2010s

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|Lord of Misrule

|Shortlist

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|Kind One

|Shortlist

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|At Night We Walk in Circles

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|Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

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|Song of the Shank

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|Prayers for the Stolen

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|Mr. and Mrs. Doctor

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|After Disasters

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|LaRose

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|In the Distance

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|Tomb of the Unknown Racist

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|Love War Stories

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|Don't Skip Out on Me

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2020s

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|Where Reasons End

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|We Cast a Shadow

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|On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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! rowspan="5" |2021

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|Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear

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|Mother Daughter Widow Wife

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|Scattered Lights

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! rowspan="5" |2022

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|Radiant Fugitives

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|Dear Miss Metropolitan

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|How Beautiful We Were

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! rowspan="5" |2023

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|If I Survive You

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|Witness

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|James

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|Colored Television

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|Ghostroots

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|Behind You Is the Sea

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! rowspan="5" |2026

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|Small Scale Sinners

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|Dominion

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|Heart the Lover

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References

  • PEN/Faulkner Foundation