ShelfEvidentAnisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction — Complete Winners List
43 years of winners · Cleveland Foundation · Since 1935 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Danzy Senna | Riverhead Books | |
| 2024 | Teju Cole | Random House | |
| 2023 | Lan Samantha Chang | W. W. Norton | |
| 2022 | Percival Everett | Graywolf Press | |
| 2021 | James McBride | Riverhead Books | |
| 2020 | Namwali Serpell | Hogarth Press | |
| 2019 | Tommy Orange | Knopf | |
| 2018 | Jesmyn Ward | Scribner | |
| 2017 | Peter Ho Davies | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2016 | Mary Morris | Nan A. Talese | |
| 2015 | Marlon James | Riverhead Books | |
| 2014 | Anthony Marra | — | |
| 2013 | Eugene Gloria | — | |
| 2012 | Esi Edugyan | Serpent's Tail | |
| 2011 | Mary Helen Stefaniak | — | |
| 2010 | Kamila Shamsie | — | |
| 2009 | Louise Erdrich | — | |
| 2008 | Junot Díaz | — | |
| 2007 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Knopf | |
| 2006 | Zadie Smith | Penguin Press | |
| 2005 | Edwidge Danticat | — | |
| 2004 | Edward P. Jones | — | |
| 2003 | Stephen L. Carter | — | |
| 2002 | Colson Whitehead | — | |
| 2000 | Chang-Rae Lee | — | |
| 1999 | Russell Banks | — | |
| 1998 | Walter Mosley | — | |
| 1997 | Jamaica Kincaid | — | |
| 1996 | Madison Smartt Bell | — | |
| 1995 | Reginald Gibbons | — | |
| 1994 | Judith Ortiz Cofer | — | |
| 1993 | Sandra Cisneros | — | |
| 1990 | Dolores Kendrick | — | |
| 1988 | Nadine Gordimer | — | |
| 1985 | Breyten Breytenbach | — | |
| 1969 | Gwendolyn Brooks | — | |
| 1962 | Gina Allen | — | |
| 1954 | Langston Hughes | — | |
| 1951 | John Hersey | — | |
| 1949 | Alan Paton | — | |
| 1948 | Worth Tuttle Hedden | — | |
| 1947 | Sholem Asch | — | |
| 1945 | Gwethalyn Graham | — |
