The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award is awarded annually to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. The award is funded by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which has been administered by the Hemingway Society since 1987, and PEN New England. It is named for Ernest Hemingway, the author of such novels as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction.

The winner is selected by a panel of three distinguished fiction writers and receives a cash prize of US$8000. Along with the winner, two finalists and two runners-up receive a Ucross Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation , a retreat for artists and writers on a 22,000 acre (89 km²) ranch on the high plains in Ucross , Wyoming. The award ceremony is held at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

Winners of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award:

• 01 1975 Loyd Little for Parthian Shot
• 02 1976 Renata Adler for Speedboat
• 03 1977 Darcy O'Brien for A Way of Life, Like Any Other
• 04 1978 Reuben Bercovitch for Hasen
• 05 1979 Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
• 06 1980 Joan Silber for Household Words
• 07 1981 Marilynne Robinson for Housekeeping
• 08 1982 Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
• 09 1983 Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
• 10 1984 Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
• 11 1985 Alan V. Hewar for Lady's Time
• 12 1986 Mary Ward Brown for Tongues of Flame
• 13 1987 Lawrence Thornton for Imagining Argentina
• 14 1988 Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth
• 15 1989 Mark Richard for The Ice at the Bottom of the World
• 16 1990 Bernard Cooper for Maps to Anywhere
• 17 1991 Louis Begley for Wartime Lies
• 18 1992 Edward P. Jones for Lost in the City
• 19 1993 Dagoberto Gilb for The Magic of Blood
• 20 1994 Susan Power for The Grass Dancer
• 21 1995 Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker
• 22 1996 Ha Jin for Ocean of Words
• 23 1997 Charlotte Bacon for A Private State
• 24 1998 Rosina Lippi for Homestead
• 25 1999 Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies
• 26 2000 Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father
• 27 2001 Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil
• 28 2002 Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
• 29 2003 Jennifer Haigh for Mrs. Kimble

See also: List of American literary awards

External links

• PEN New England homepage