The Young Lions Fiction Award is an annual US literary prize of $10,000, awarded to a writer who is 35 years old or younger for a novel or collection of short stories.[1][2] The award was established in 2001 by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, Hannah McFarland, and the New York Public Library. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members (a New York Public Library membership aimed at people in their 20s and 30s[3]), writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of judges selects the winner.[1][4]
Year | Winner | Finalists | Judges |
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2001 | Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves[10] |
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Michael Chabon, A.M. Homes, Francine Prose |
2002 | Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days[11] |
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Andrea Barrett, Mark Danielweski, Jonathan Lethem |
2003 | Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector; Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated[12] |
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Joyce Carol Oates, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead |
2004 | Monique Truong, The Book of Salt[13] |
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Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maureen Howard |
2005 | Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli[5] |
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Siri Hustvedt, Colum McCann, Monique Truong |
2006 | Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation[14] |
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Rick Moody, Edmund White, Andrew Sean Greer |
2007 | Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov[15] |
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Kathryn Harrison, Jeff Talarigo, Uzodinma Iweala |
2008 | Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead[16] |
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Olga Grushin, Han Ong, Helen Schulman |
2009 | Salvatore Scibona, The End[17] |
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André Aciman, Lore Segal, Ron Currie, Jr. |
2010 | Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned[12] |
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Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Salvatore Scibona |
2011 | Adam Levin, The Instructions[18] |
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Maile Chapman, Andrew Sean Greer, Kelly Link |
2012 | Karen Russell, Swamplandia![19] |
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Álvaro Enrique, A.M. Homes, Adam Levin |
2013 | Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn[20] |
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Karen Russell, John Wray, Peter Nathaniel Malae |
2014 | Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters[5] |
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Téa Obreht, Colm Tóibín, Claire Vaye Watkins |
2015 | Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans[21] |
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Ayana Mathis, Rebecca Mead, Paul Yoon |
2016 | Amelia Gray, Gutshot[22] |
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Molly Antopol, Joseph O'Neill, Alejandro Zambra |
2017 | Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs[23][24] |
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Amelia Gray, Susan Minot, Salvatore Scibon |
2018 | Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky[5][25] |
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Carys Davies, Lynn Lobash, Karan Mahajan |
2019 | Ling Ma, Severance[26] |
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Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Marisa Silvers |
2020 | Bryan Washington, Lot[27][28] |
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Ethan Hawke, Mitchell Jackson, Ling Ma |
2021 | Catherine Lacey, Pew[29][2] |
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Hernan Diaz, Emma Straub, Yahdon Israel |
2022 | Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land[30] |
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Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey |
2023 | Zain Khalid, Brother Alive[31] |
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Jessamine Chan, Claire Luchette, and Kalani Pickhart |