The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,

  • National Book Award for Fiction, 1993
  • Irish Times International Fiction Prize, 1993

Critical reception

On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed The Shipping News on its list of the 100 most inspiring novels.