Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) — Complete Winners List
24 years of winners · Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation · Since 2001 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Percival Everett | Doubleday | |
| 2024 | Mihret Sibhat | Viking | |
| 2023 | James Hannaham | Little, Brown | |
| 2022 | Percival Everett | Graywolf Press | |
| 2021 | Percival Everett | Graywolf Press | |
| 2020 | Curdella Forbes | Akashic Books | |
| 2019 | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | — | |
| 2018 | Alain Mabanckou | The New Press | |
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | Doubleday | |
| 2016 | — | — | |
| 2015 | Laila Lalami | Pantheon Books | |
| 2014 | NoViolet Bulawayo | Reagan Arthur Books | |
| 2013 | Esi Edugyan | Serpent's Tail | |
| 2012 | Helen Oyeyemi | Riverhead Books | |
| 2011 | Danielle Evans | Riverhead Books | |
| 2010 | Percival Everett | Graywolf Press | |
| 2009 | Uwem Akpan | Little, Brown | |
| 2008 | Junot Díaz | Riverhead Books | |
| 2007 | Edward P. Jones | Amistad | |
| 2006 | Nancy Rawles | Crown | |
| 2005 | Maryse Conde | Atria Books | |
| 2004 | Mat Johnson | Bloomsbury USA | |
| 2003 | Zakes Mda | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2002 | Percival Everett | University Press of New England |