ShelfEvidentPEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction — Complete Winners List
46 years of winners · PEN/Faulkner Foundation · Since 1981 · ← Back to award page
| 2026 | Mahreen Sohail | A Public Space | |
| 2025 | Garth Greenwell | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2024 | — | — | |
| 2023 | Yiyun Li | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2022 | — | — | |
| 2021 | Deesha Philyaw | West Virginia University Press | |
| 2020 | — | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | |
| 2018 | Joan Silber | Counterpoint | |
| 2017 | — | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | |
| 2015 | — | — | |
| 2014 | Karen Joy Fowler | Marian Wood Books | |
| 2013 | — | — | |
| 2012 | Julie Otsuka | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2011 | — | — | |
| 2010 | Sherman Alexie | Grove Press | |
| 2009 | — | Pantheon Books | |
| 2008 | Kate Christensen | — | |
| 2007 | Philip Roth | — | |
| 2006 | E. L. Doctorow | — | |
| 2005 | Ha Jin | — | |
| 2004 | John Updike | — | |
| 2003 | Sabina Murray | — | |
| 2002 | Ann Patchett | — | |
| 2001 | Philip Roth | — | |
| 2000 | Ha Jin | — | |
| 1999 | Michael Cunningham | — | |
| 1998 | Rafi Zabor | — | |
| 1997 | Gina Berriault | — | |
| 1996 | Richard Ford | — | |
| 1995 | David Guterson | — | |
| 1994 | Philip Roth | — | |
| 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | — | |
| 1992 | Don DeLillo | — | |
| 1991 | John Edgar Wideman | — | |
| 1990 | E. L. Doctorow | — | |
| 1989 | James Salter | — | |
| 1988 | T. C. Boyle | — | |
| 1987 | Richard Wiley | — | |
| 1986 | Peter Taylor | — | |
| 1985 | Tobias Wolff | — | |
| 1984 | John Edgar Wideman | — | |
| 1983 | Toby Olson | — | |
| 1982 | David Bradley | — | |
| 1981 | Walter Abish | — |
