| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2012 |
|
Teju Cole |
Open City |
| 2011 |
|
Brando Skyhorse |
The Madonnas of Echo Park |
| 2010 |
|
Brigid Pasulka |
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True |
| 2009 |
|
Michael Dahlie |
A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living |
| 2008 |
|
Joshua Ferris |
Then We Came to the End |
| 2007 |
|
Ben Fountain |
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara |
| 2006 |
|
Yiyun Li |
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers |
| 2005 |
|
Chris Abani |
Graceland |
| 2004 |
|
Jennifer Haigh |
Mrs. Kimble |
| 2003 |
|
Gabriel Brownstein |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W |
| 2002 |
|
Justin Cronin |
Mary and O'Neil |
| 2001 |
|
Akhil Sharma |
An Obedient Father |
| 2000 |
|
Jhumpa Lahiri |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| 1999 |
|
Rosina Lippi |
Homestead |
| 1998 |
|
Charlotte Bacon |
A Private State: Stories |
| 1997 |
|
Ha Jin |
Ocean of Words |
| 1996 |
|
Chang-Rae Lee |
Native Speaker |
| 1995 |
|
Susan Power |
The Grass Dancer |
| 1994 |
|
Dagoberto Gilb |
The Magic of Blood |
| 1993 |
|
Edward P. Jones |
Lost in the City |
| 1992 |
|
Louis Begley |
Wartime Lies |
| 1991 |
|
Bernard Cooper |
Maps to Anywhere |
| 1990 |
|
Mark Richard |
The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories |
| 1989 |
|
Jane Hamilton |
The Book of Ruth |
| 1988 |
|
Lawrence Thornton |
Imagining Argentina |
| 1987 |
|
Mary Ward Brown |
Tongues of Flame |
| 1986 |
|
Alan V. Hewar |
Lady's Time |
| 1985 |
|
Josephine Humphreys |
Dreams of Sleep |
| 1984 |
|
Joan Chase |
During the Reign of the Queen of Persia |
| 1983 |
|
Bobbie Ann Mason |
Shiloh and Other Stories |
| 1982 |
|
Marilynne Robinson |
Housekeeping |
| 1981 |
|
Joan Silber |
Household Words |
| 1980 |
|
Alan Saperstein |
Mom Kills Kids and Self |
| 1979 |
|
Reuben Bercovitch |
Hasen |
| 1978 |
|
Darcy O'Brien |
A Way of Life, Like Any Other |
| 1977 |
|
Renata Adler |
Speedboat |
| 1976 |
|
Loyd Little |
Parthian Shot |
