PEN/Malamud Award
2024 Ted Chiang
2023 Edwidge Danticat
2022 Yiyun Li
2021 Charles Baxter
2020 Lydia Davis
2019 John Edgar Wideman
2018 Amina Gautier
2018 Joan Silber
2017 Jhumpa Lahiri
2016 Joy Williams
2015 Deborah Eisenberg
2013 George Saunders
2012 James Salter
2011 Edith Pearlman
2010 Edward P Jones
2010 Nam Le
2009 Amy Hempel
2009 Alistair MacLeod
2008 Peter Ho Davies
2008 Cynthia Ozick
2007 Elizabeth Spencer
2006 Adam Haslett
2006 Tobias Wolff
2005 Lorrie Moore
2004 Richard Bausch
2004 Nell Freudenberger
2003 Barry Hannah
2003 Maile Meloy
2002 Junot Díaz
2002 Ursula K Le Guin
2001 Sherman Alexie
2001 Richard Ford
2000 Ann Beattie
2000 Nathan Englander
1999 T C Boyle
1998 John Barth
1997 Alice Munro
1996 Joyce Carol Oates
1995 Stuart Dybek
1995 William Maxwell
1994 Grace Paley
1993 Peter Taylor
1992 Eudora Welty
1991 Frederick Busch
1991 Andre Dubus
1990 George Garrett
1989 Saul Bellow
1988 John Updike
2023 Edwidge Danticat
2022 Yiyun Li
2021 Charles Baxter
2020 Lydia Davis
2019 John Edgar Wideman
2018 Amina Gautier
2018 Joan Silber
2017 Jhumpa Lahiri
2016 Joy Williams
2015 Deborah Eisenberg
2013 George Saunders
2012 James Salter
2011 Edith Pearlman
2010 Edward P Jones
2010 Nam Le
2009 Amy Hempel
2009 Alistair MacLeod
2008 Peter Ho Davies
2008 Cynthia Ozick
2007 Elizabeth Spencer
2006 Adam Haslett
2006 Tobias Wolff
2005 Lorrie Moore
2004 Richard Bausch
2004 Nell Freudenberger
2003 Barry Hannah
2003 Maile Meloy
2002 Junot Díaz
2002 Ursula K Le Guin
2001 Sherman Alexie
2001 Richard Ford
2000 Ann Beattie
2000 Nathan Englander
1999 T C Boyle
1998 John Barth
1997 Alice Munro
1996 Joyce Carol Oates
1995 Stuart Dybek
1995 William Maxwell
1994 Grace Paley
1993 Peter Taylor
1992 Eudora Welty
1991 Frederick Busch
1991 Andre Dubus
1990 George Garrett
1989 Saul Bellow
1988 John Updike
About the PEN America Awards
Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards have celebrated outstanding voices in literature across diverse genres. These prestigious awards honor excellence in translation, fiction, poetry, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children's literature, and drama. Website
The PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award honors "excellence in the art of the short story".
The PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award honors "excellence in the art of the short story".