Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
PEN New England presents this award to the author of an outstanding first work of fiction.

2004

Winner:
Mrs. Kimble, by Jennifer Haigh

Finalists:
Night Journey, by Murad Kalim
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by Z.Z. Packer

Runners Up:
The Interpreters, by Suki Kim
The Bug, by Ellen Ullman

2003

Winner:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W, by Gabriel Brownstein

Finalists:
A Jeweler's Eye for Flaw, by Christie Hodgen
Dear Mr. President, by Gabe Hudson

Runners Up:
Arafat's Elephant, by Jonathan Tel
A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga, by Julia Whitty


2002

Winner:
Mary and O'Neil, by Justin Cronin

Finalists:
Esther Stories, by Peter Orner
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri

Runners Up:
The Bostons, by Carolyn Cooke
Three Apples Fell From Heaven, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom


2001

Winner:
An Obedient Father, by Akhil Sharma

Finalists:
Moth Smoke, by Mohsid Hamid
Scar Vegas and Other Stories, by Tom Paine

Runners Up:
Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg
Use Me, by Elissa Schappell


2000

Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri


1999

Homestead, by Rosina Lippi


1998

A Private State, by Charlotte Bacon


1997

Ocean of Words, by Ha Jin


1996

Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee


1995

The Grass Dancer, by Susan Power


1994

The Magic of Blood, by Dagoberto Gilb


1993

Lost in the City, by Edward P. Jones


1992

Wartime Lies, by Louis Begley


1991

Maps to Anywhere, by Bernard Cooper


1990

The Ice at the Bottom of the World, by Mark Richard


1989

The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton


1988

Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton


1987

Tongues of Flame, by Mary Ward Brown


1986

Lady's Time, by Alan V. Hewar


1985

Dreams of Sleep, by Josephine Humphreys


1984

During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba, by Joan Chase


1983

Shiloh and Other Stories, by Bobbie Ann Mason


1982

Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson


1981

Household Words, by Joan Silber


1980

Mom Kills Kids and Self, by Alan Saperstein


1979

Hasen, by Reuben Bercovitch


1978

A Way of Life, Like Any Other, by Darcy O'Brien


1977

Speedboat, by Renata Adler


1976

Parthian Shot, by Loyd Little



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