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.

Fiction award winners

• 2011 Edith Pearlman
• 2010 Edward P. Jones and Nam Le
• 2009 Alistair MacLeod and Amy Hempel
• 2008 Cynthia Ozick and Peter Ho Davies
• 2007 Elizabeth Spencer
• 2006 Adam Haslett and Tobias Wolff
• 2005 Lorrie Moore
• 2004 Richard Bausch and Nell Freudenberger
• 2003 Barry Hannah and Maile Meloy
• 2002 Junot Diaz and Ursula K. Le Guin
• 2001 Sherman Alexie and Richard Ford
• 2000 Ann Beattie and Nathan Englander
• 1999 T. Coraghessan Boyle
• 1998 John Barth
• 1997 Alice Munro
• 1996 Joyce Carol Oates
• 1995 Stuart Dybek and William Maxwell
• 1994 Grace Paley
• 1993 Peter Taylor
• 1992 Eudora Welty
• 1991 Frederick Busch and Andre Dubus
• 1990 George Garrett
• 1989 Saul Bellow
• 1988 John Updike

External links

• PEN/Faulkner Foundation
• The PEN/Malamud Award recipients list at Powell's "Award Winners"