Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction was awarded by the editors of The Paris Review for what they deem to be the best short story published in the magazine in a given year. The last prize was given in 2004. No applications were accepted. The winner got $1,000.^[1] The prize was established by Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III, and was first awarded in 1956.^[2]

Although the money awarded is the same as many other literary awards in the United States, since the magazine itself attracts some of the most highly regarded authors, the winners of the prize are often highly esteemed writers, most of whom previously won other major literary awards or go on to do so, or both.

Winners

2004: Annie Proulx, Issue 171, The Wamsutter Wolf
2003: Michael Chabon, Issue 166, for The Final Solution
2002: Denis Johnson, Issue 162, for Train Dreams
2001: Maile Meloy, Issue 158, Aqua Boulevard
2000: Marcel Möring, Issue 155, East Bergholt
1999: Robert Antoni, Issue 152, My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head
1998: Will Self, Issue 146, Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys
1997: David Foster Wallace, Issue 144, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6
1996: Patricia Eakins, Issue 140, The Garden of Fishes
1995: A. S. Byatt, Issue 133, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
1994: Rick Moody, Issue 131, The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven
1993: Charles D'Ambrosio, Issue 126, Her Real Name
1992: Joanna Scott, Issue 123, A Borderline Case
1991: Jeffrey Eugenides, Issue 117, The Virgin Suicides
1990: Larry Woiwode, Issue 114, Summer Storms
1989: John Banville, Issue 113, The Book of Evidence
1987: Ben Okri, Issue 105, The Dream-Vendor's August
1985: Michael Covino, Issue 94, Monologue of the Movie Mogul
1984: Norman Rush, Issue 93, Instruments of Seduction
1983: Charlie Smith, Issue 88, Crystal River
1982: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Issue 84, Greasy Lake
1979: Norman Lock, Issue 76, The Love of Stanley Marvel & Claire Moon
1978: Dallas Wiebe, Issue 73, Night Flight to Stockholm
1977: C. W. Gusewelle, Issue 70, Horst Wessel
1976: Bart Midwood, Issue 66, John O'Neill versus the Crown
1975: David Evanier, Issue 61, Cancer of the Testicles
1974: Lamar Herrin, Issue 59, The Rio Loja Ringmaster
1973: Paul West, Issue 57, Tan Salaam
1967: Christina Stead, Issue 40, George
1965: Jeremy Larner, Issue 33, Oh, the Wonder!”
1962: Albert J. Guerard, Issue 28, The Lusts & Gratification of Andrada
1961: Thomas Whitbread, Issue 24, The Rememberer
1958: Philip Roth, Issue 19, Epstein
1956: Gina Berriault, Issue 12, Around the Dear Ruin
1956: John Langdon, Issue 12, The Blue Serge Suit
1956: Owen Dodson, Issue 12, The Summer Fire (2nd Prize:)

Notes

^ [1] Paris Review Web page listing Aga Khan Prize winners and giving other information about the prize, accessed 3 November 2006
^ Kirby, David (4 March 1990). "The New York Times Review of The Paris Review Anthology". The New York Times.