Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) — Complete Winners List

24 years of winners · Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation · Since 2001 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	James	Percival Everett	Doubleday
2024	The History of a Difficult Child	Mihret Sibhat	Viking
2023	Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta	James Hannaham	Little, Brown
2022	The Trees	Percival Everett	Graywolf Press
2021	Telephone	Percival Everett	Graywolf Press
2020	A Tall History of Sugar	Curdella Forbes	Akashic Books
2019	Heads of the Colored People	Nafissa Thompson-Spires	—
2018	Black Moses	Alain Mabanckou	The New Press
2017	The Underground Railroad	Colson Whitehead	Doubleday
2016	Delicious Foods	—	—
2015	The Moors' Account: A Novel	Laila Lalami	Pantheon Books
2014	We Need New Names	NoViolet Bulawayo	Reagan Arthur Books
2013	Half-Blood Blues	Esi Edugyan	Serpent's Tail
2012	Mr. Fox	Helen Oyeyemi	Riverhead Books
2011	Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self	Danielle Evans	Riverhead Books
2010	I Am Not Sidney Poitier	Percival Everett	Graywolf Press
2009	Say You're One of Them	Uwem Akpan	Little, Brown
2008	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz	Riverhead Books
2007	All Aunt Hagar's Children	Edward P. Jones	Amistad
2006	My Jim	Nancy Rawles	Crown
2005	Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?	Maryse Conde	Atria Books
2004	Hunting in Harlem	Mat Johnson	Bloomsbury USA
2003	The Heart of Redness	Zakes Mda	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2002	Erasure	Percival Everett	University Press of New England