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]

Recipients

Past winners and finalists[5][6][7][8][9]
Year Winner Finalists Judges
2001 Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves[10] Michael Chabon, A.M. Homes, Francine Prose
2002 Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days[11] Andrea Barrett, Mark Danielweski, Jonathan Lethem
2003 Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector;  Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated[12] Joyce Carol Oates, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead
2004 Monique Truong, The Book of Salt[13] Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maureen Howard
2005 Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli[5] Siri Hustvedt, Colum McCann, Monique Truong
2006 Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation[14]
  • Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing
  • Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
  • Ander Monson, Other Electricities
  • Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor
 Rick Moody, Edmund White, Andrew Sean Greer
2007 Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov[15]
  • Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital
  • Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
  • Tony D'Souza, Whiteman
  • Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
 Kathryn Harrison, Jeff Talarigo, Uzodinma Iweala
2008 Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead[16]
  • Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken In America
  • Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man
  • Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
  • Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World
 Olga Grushin, Han Ong, Helen Schulman
2009 Salvatore Scibona, The End[17]
  • Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City
  • Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances
  • Sana Krasikov, One More Year
  • Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey
 André Aciman, Lore Segal, Ron Currie, Jr.
2010 Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned[12]
  • Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
  • Katie Kitamura, The Longshot
  • C.E. Morgan, All the Living
  • Philipp Meyer, American Rust
 Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Salvatore Scibona
2011 Adam Levin, The Instructions[18]
  • John Brandon, Citrus County
  • Patricia Engel, Vida Suzanne
  • Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option
  • Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil
 Maile Chapman, Andrew Sean Greer, Kelly Link
2012 Karen Russell, Swamplandia![19] Álvaro Enrique, A.M. Homes, Adam Levin
2013 Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn[20]
  • Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
  • Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages
  • Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest
  • Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
 Karen Russell, John Wray, Peter Nathaniel Malae
2014 Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters[5]
  • Matt Bell, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
  • Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel
  • Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  • Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water
 Téa Obreht, Colm Tóibín, Claire Vaye Watkins
2015 Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans[21] Ayana Mathis, Rebecca Mead, Paul Yoon
2016 Amelia Gray, Gutshot[22] Molly Antopol, Joseph O'Neill, Alejandro Zambra
2017 Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs[23][24] Amelia Gray, Susan Minot, Salvatore Scibon
2018 Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky[5][25] Carys Davies, Lynn Lobash, Karan Mahajan
2019 Ling Ma, Severance[26] Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Marisa Silvers
2020 Bryan Washington, Lot[27][28] Ethan Hawke, Mitchell Jackson, Ling Ma
2021 Catherine Lacey, Pew[29][2] Hernan Diaz, Emma Straub, Yahdon Israel
2022 Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land[30]
  • Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
  • Alexandra Kleeman, Something Under the Sun
  • Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
  • Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
 Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey
2023 Zain Khalid, Brother Alive[31] Jessamine Chan, Claire Luchette, and Kalani Pickhart

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