O. Henry Awards
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The O. Henry Awards are yearly prizes given to short stories of exceptional merit. They are named after an American master of the form, O. Henry. They were first awarded in 1919.
The O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in American and Canadian magazines, written in the English language.
Starting in 2003, The O. Henry Prize Stories is dedicated to a writer who has made a major contribution to the art of the short story. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 was dedicated to Mavis Gallant, a Canadian writer who lives in Paris, France.
List of first prize winners
2003
- Denis Johnson : "Train Dreams" in the Paris Review, Summer 2002
- A. S. Byatt : "The Thing in the Forest" in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002
2002
- Kevin Brockmeier : "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 7
2001
- Mary Swan : "The Deep” in The Malahat Review, No. 131
2000
- John Edgar Wideman : "Weight” in The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3
1999
- Peter Baida : "A Nurse's Story” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 3
1998
- Lorrie Moore : "People Like That Are the Only People Here” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997
1997
- Mary Gordon : "City Life” in Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 1
1996
- Stephen King : "The Man in the Black Suit” in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994
1995
- Cornelia Nixon : "The Women Come and Go” in New England Review, Spring 1994
1994
- Alison Baker : "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” in The Atlantic Monthly, January 1993
1993
- Thom Jones : "The Pugilist at Rest” in The New Yorker, December 2, 1991
1992
- Cynthia Ozick : "Puttermesser Paired” in The New Yorker, October 8, 1990
1991
- John Updike : "A Sandstone Farmhouse” in The New Yorker, June 11, 1990
1990
- Leo E. Litwak : "The Eleventh Edition” in TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 1989
1989
- Ernest J. Finney : "Peacocks” in The Sewanee Review, Winter 1988
1988
- Raymond Carver : "Errand” in The New Yorker, June 1, 1987
1987
- Louise Erdrich : "Fleur” in Esquire Magazine, August 1986
- Joyce Johnson : "The Children's Wing” in Harper's Magazine, July 1986
1986
- Alice Walker : "Kindred Spirits” in Esquire, August 1985
1985
- Stuart Dybek : "Hot Ice” in Antaeus Magazine
- Jane Smiley : "Lily” in The Atlantic Monthly
1984
- Cynthia Ozick : "Rosa” in The New Yorker, March 21, 1983
1983
- Raymond Carver : "A Small, Good Thing” in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
1982
- Susan Kenney : "Facing Front” in Epoch Magazine, Winter 1980
1981
- Cynthia Ozick : "The Shawl” in The New Yorker, May 26, 1980
1980
- Saul Bellow : "A Silver Dish” in The New Yorker, September 25, 1978
1979
- Gordon Weaver : "Getting Serious” in The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977
1978
- Woody Allen : "The Kugelmass Episode” in The New Yorker, May 2, 1977
1977
- Shirley Hazzard : "A Long Story Short” in The New Yorker, July 26, 1976
- Ella Leffland : "Last Courtesies” in Harper's Magazine, July 1976
1976
- Harold Brodkey : "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” in Esquire, August 1975
1975
- Harold Brodkey : "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” in The New Yorker, September 17, 1973
- Cynthia Ozick : "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” in Esquire, May 1974
1974
- Renata Adler : "Brownstone” in The New Yorker, January 27, 1973
1973
- Joyce Carol Oates : "The Dead” in McCall's, July 1971
1972
- John Batki : "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971
1971
- Florence M Hecht : "Twin Bed Bridge” in The Atlantic Monthly, May 1970
1970
- Robert Hemenway : "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969
1969
- Bernard Malamud : "Man in the Drawer” in The Atlantic, April 1968
1968
- Eudora Welty : "The Demonstrators” in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966
1967
- Joyce Carol Oates : "In the Region of Ice” in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1966
1966
- John Updike : "The Bulgarian Poetess” in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965
1965
- Flannery O'Connor : "Revelation” in Sewanee Review, Spring 1964
1964
- John Cheever : "The Embarkment for Cythera” in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962
1963
- Flannery O'Connor : "Everything That Rises Must Converge” in New World Writing
1962
- Katherine Anne Porter : "Holiday” in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1960
1961
- Tillie Olson : "Tell Me a Riddle” in New World Writing, No. 16
1960
- Lawrence Sargent Hall : "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59
1959
- Peter Taylor : "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review
1958
- Martha Gellhorn : "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly
1957
- Flannery O'Connor : "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review
1956
- John Cheever : "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker
1955
- Jean Stafford : "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker
1954
- Thomas Mabry : "The Indian Feather” in The Sewanee Review
1951
- Harris Downey : "The Hunters” in Epoch Magazine
1950
- Wallace Stegner : "The Blue-Winged Teal” in Harper's Magazine
1949
- William Faulkner : "A Courtship” in The Sewanee Review
1948
- Truman Capote : "Shut a Final Door” in The Atlantic Monthly
1947
- John Bell Clayton : "The White Circle” in Harper's Magazine
1946
- John Mayo Goss : "Bird Song” in The Atlantic Monthly
1945
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark : "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review
1944
- Irwin Shaw : "Walking Wounded” in The New Yorker
1943
- Eudora Welty : "Livvie is Back” in The Atlantic Monthly
1942
- Eudora Welty : "The Wide Net” in Harper's Magazine
1941
- Kay Boyle : "Defeat” in The New Yorker
1940
- Stephen Vincent Benét : "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” in The Saturday Evening Post
1939
- William Faulkner : "Barn Burning” in Harper's Magazine
1938
- Albert Maltz : "The Happiest Man on Earth” in Harper's Magazine
1937
- Stephen Vincent Benet : "The Devil and Daniel Webster” in The Saturday Evening Post
1936
- James Gould Cozzens : "Total Stranger” in Saturday Evening Post, February 15, 1936
1935
- Kay Boyle : "The White Horses of Vienna” in Harper's Magazine
1934
- Louis Paul : "No More Trouble for Jedwick” in Esquire
1933
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings : "Gal Young Un” in Harper's Magazine, June & July 1932
1932
- Stephen Vincent Benét : "An End to Dreams” in Pictorial Review, February 1932
1931
- Wilbur Daniel Steele : "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” in Pictorial Review
1930
- W.R. Burnett : "Dressing-Up” in Harper's Magazine, November 1929
- William H. John : "Neither Jew nor Greek” in Century Magazine, August 1929
1929
- Dorothy Parker : "Big Blonde” in Bookman Magazine, February 1929
1928
- Walter Duranty : "The Parrot” in Redbook Magazine, March 1928
1927
- Roarke Bradford : "Child of God” in Harper's Magazine, April 1927
1926
- Wilbur Daniel Steele : "Bubbles” in Harper's Magazine
1925
- Julian Street : "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
1924
- Inez Haynes Irwin : "The Spring Flight” in McCall's Magazine, June 1924
1923
- Edgar Valentine Smith : "Prelude” in Harper's Magazine, May 1923
1922
- Irvin S. Cobb : "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1922
1921
- Edison Marshall : "The Heart of Little Shikara” in Everybody's Magazine, January 1921
1920
- Maxwell Struthers Burt : "Each in His Generation” in Scribner's Magazine, July 1920
1919
- Margaret Prescott Montague : "England to America” in The Atlantic Monthly, September 1918
External link
- Complete list of winners 1919-1999 (http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0999/winnerslist.html)