PEN/Malamud Award
# PEN/Malamud Award

The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors. The award was first given in 1988.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

## Award winners

PEN/Malamud Award winners :

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1988 | John Updike |
| 1989 | Saul Bellow |
| 1990 | George Garrett |
| 1991 | Frederick Busch |
| 1991 | Andre Dubus |
| 1992 | Eudora Welty |
| 1993 | Peter Taylor |
| 1994 | Grace Paley |
| 1995 | Stuart Dybek |
| 1995 | William Maxwell |
| 1996 | Joyce Carol Oates |
| 1997 | Alice Munro |
| 1998 | John Barth |
| 1999 | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| 2000 | Ann Beattie |
| 2000 | Nathan Englander |
| 2001 | Sherman Alexie |
| 2001 | Richard Ford |
| 2002 | Junot Díaz |
| 2002 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2003 | Barry Hannah |
| 2003 | Maile Meloy |
| 2004 | Richard Bausch |
| 2004 | Nell Freudenberger |
| 2005 | Lorrie Moore |
| 2006 | Adam Haslett |
| 2006 | Tobias Wolff |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Spencer |
| 2008 | Peter Ho Davies |
| 2008 | Cynthia Ozick |
| 2009 | Amy Hempel |
| 2009 | Alistair MacLeod |
| 2010 | Edward P. Jones |
| 2010 | Nam Le |
| 2011 | Edith Pearlman |
| 2012 | James Salter |
| 2013 | George Saunders |
| 2015 | Deborah Eisenberg |
| 2016 | Joy Williams |
| 2017 | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2018 | Amina Gautier |
| 2018 | Joan Silber |
| 2019 | John Edgar Wideman |
| 2020 | Lydia Davis |
| 2021 | Charles Baxter |
| 2022 | Yiyun Li |
| 2023 | Edwidge Danticat |
