Past Recipients and Select Works
2023 Patricia Engel
- Vida
- The Veins of the Ocean
- Infinite Country
2022 Carolina De Robertis
- The President and the Frog
- Cantoras
- The Gods of Tango
2021 Monique Truong
- The Book of Salt
- Bitter in the Mouth
- The Sweetest Fruits
2020 Aleksandar Hemon
- My Parents: An Introduction/This Does Not Belong to You
- The Lazarus Project
- Nowhere Man
2019 Rabih Alameddine
- The Angel of History
- An Unnecessary Woman
- The Hakawati
- I, The Divine
2018 Karen Tei Yamashita
- I Hotel
- Circle K Cycles
- Tropic of Orange
- Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
2017 Chang-rae Lee
- On Such a Full Sea
- Native Speaker
- A Gesture Life
- Aloft
- The Surrendered
2016 Danzy Senna
- Caucasia
- Symptomatic
- You Are Free
2015 Paul Beatty
- The Sellout
- Slumberland
- Tuff
- The White Boy Shuffle
2014 Ruth Ozeki
- Halving the Bones
- My Year of Meats
- All Over Creation
- A Tale for the Time Being
2013 Sherman Alexie
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
- Blasphemy
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Toughest Indian in the World
2012 Colson Whitehead
- Zone One
- Apex Hides the Hurt
- John Henry Days
- The Intuitionist
2011 Mat Johnson
- Pym
- Inconegro
- Drop
- Hunting in Harlem
2010 Percival Everett
- Erasure
- Glyph
- I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- Watershed
2009 Robert Bausch
- Out of Season
- The Gypsy Man
- A Hole in the Earth
2008 Allen Wier
- Tehano
- A Place for Outlaws
- Departing as Air
- Blanco
2006 Kent Haruf
- Plainsong
- Eventide
- The Tie That Binds
- Where You Once Belonged
2005 Tim Gautreaux
- The Next Step in the Dance
- The Clearing
2004 Maureen Howard
- Grace Abounding
- Expensive Habits
- Natural History
2003 Richard Powers
- Three Farmers on their way to a Dance
- Gain
2002 Randall Kenan
- A Visitation of Spirits
- Walking on Water, Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
2001 Madison Smartt Bell
- The Washington Square Ensemble
- Master of Crossroads
2000 Jill McCorkle
- The Cheer Leader
- Carolina Moon
1999 Eric Kraft
- The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, Observations of Peter Leroy (1982)
- Herb 'n' Lorna (1994)
1998 Maxine Hong Kingston
- The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)
- China Men (1980)
1997 Annie Proulx
- The Shipping News (1993)
- That Old Ace in the Hole (2002)
1995 Helena Maria Viramontes
- The Moths and the Other Stories (1985)
- Under the Feet of Jesus (1995)
1994 James Welch
- The Death of Jim Lonely (1979)
- Indian Lawyer (1990)
1993 Ernest J. Gaines
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971)
- A Lesson Before Dying (1993)
1992 William Hoffman
- The Land that Drank the Rain (1982)
- By Land, by Sea: Stories (1988)
1991 Elizabeth Spencer
- The Light in the Piazza (1960)
- The Night Travellers (1991)
1990 Larry Woidode
- Poppa John (1981)
- The Neumiller Stories (1983)
1989 Paule Marshall
- Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959)
- Praisesong for the Widow (1983)
1988 Shelby Foote
- Shiloh: A Novel (1952)
- The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-74)
1987 Lee Smith
- Oral History (1983)
- Fair and Tender Ladies (1988)
1986 John Edgar Wideman
- Brothers and Keepers (1984)
- Sent for You Yesterday (1983)
1985 Russell Banks
- Searching for Survivors (1975)
- Continental Drift (1985)
1984 Tom Wolfe
- The Right Stuff (1979)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
1983 Dorris Betts
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (1973)
- Heading West (1981)
1982 Robert Stone
- Dog Soldiers (1974)
- A Flag for Sunrise (1981)
1981 Gilbert Sorrentino
- Aberration of Starlight (1980)
- Crystal Vision (1981)
1980 Graham Greene
- The Heart of the Matter (1948)
- The Honorary Consul (1973)