O. Henry Award
O. Henry Award | |
---|---|
Awarded for | Short story awards |
Country | United States |
First awarded | 1919; 105 years ago (1919) |
Website | http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/ |
The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry.
The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories is an annual collection of the year's twenty best stories published in U.S. and Canadian magazines.
Until 2002 there were first, second, and third prize winners and from 2003 to 2019 there were three jurors who each selected a short story of special interest or merit; the collection is called The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and the original collection was called Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards.
History and format
The award was first presented in 1919 and funded by the Society of Arts and Sciences.[1][2] As of 2021, the guest editor chooses twenty short stories, each an O. Henry Prize story. All stories published in an American or Canadian periodical are eligible for consideration, including stories that have been translated into English.
The goal of The O. Henry Prize Stories remains to strengthen the art of the short story.
The current series editor for The O. Henry Prize Stories is Jenny Minton Quigley. Past series editors have been: Blanche Colton Williams (1919–32), Harry Hansen (1933–40), Herschel Brickell (1941–51), Paul Engle (1954–59), Mary Stegner (1960), Richard Poirier (1961–66, assisted by William Abrahams, 1964–66), William Abrahams (1967–96), Larry Dark (1997–2002) and Laura Furman (2003–2019). There were no volumes of the series in 1952 and 1953 (due to Herschel Brickell's death), 2004 and 2020.[1]
Partnership with PEN American Center
In 2009 The O. Henry Prize Stories publisher, Anchor Books, renamed the series in partnership with the PEN American Center (today PEN America), producing the first PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Proceeds from the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 would be directed to PEN's Readers & Writers Program, which sends well-known authors to under served inner-city schools.
The selection included stories by Graham Joyce, John Burnside, Roger Nash, Manuel Muñoz, Ha Jin, Paul Theroux, Judy Troy, Nadine Gordimer, Marisa Silver, Paul Yoon, Andrew Sean Greer, and Junot Díaz, with A. S. Byatt, Tim O'Brien and Anthony Doerr – all authors of past O. Henry Prize Stories – serving as the prize jury.[3]
In an interview for the Vintage Books and Anchor Books blog, editor Laura Furman called the collaboration with PEN a "natural partnership".[4]
First-prize winners (1919–2002)
Juror favorites (2003–2019)
Year | Author | Title | Publication | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | A. S. Byatt | The Thing in the Forest | The New Yorker, June 3, 2002 | |
Denis Johnson | Train Dreams | The Paris Review, Summer 2002 | ||
2004 | No award | |||
2005 | Sherman Alexie | What You Pawn I Will Redeem | The New Yorker, April 21, 2003 | |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Refuge in London | Zoetrope: All-Story, Winter 2003 | ||
Elizabeth Stuckey-French | Mudlavia | The Atlantic Monthly, September 2003 | ||
2006 | Deborah Eisenberg | Window | Tin House, Spring 2004 | |
Edward P. Jones | Old Boys, Old Girls | The New Yorker, May 3, 2004 | ||
Alice Munro | Passion | The New Yorker, March 22, 2004 | [9] | |
2007 | Eddie Chuculate | Galveston Bay, 1826 | Manoa, Winter 2004 | |
William Trevor | The Room | The New Yorker, May 16, 2005 | ||
2008 | Alice Munro | What Do You Want To Know For? | The American Scholar | |
William Trevor | Folie a Deux | The New Yorker | ||
Alexi Zentner | Touch | Tin House | ||
2009 | Junot Díaz | Wildwood | The New Yorker | |
Graham Joyce | An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen | The Paris Review | ||
2010 | James Lasdun | Oh, Death | The Paris Review, Spring 2009 | |
Daniyal Mueenuddin | A Spoiled Man | The New Yorker, September 15, 2008 | ||
William Trevor | The Woman of the House | The New Yorker, December 15, 2008 | ||
2011 | Lynn Freed | Sunshine | Narrative Magazine | |
Matthew Neill Null | Something You Can't Live Without | Oxford American | ||
Jim Shepard | Your Fate Hurtles Down at You | Electric Literature | ||
2012 | Yiyun Li | Kindness | A Public Space | |
Alice Munro | Corrie | The New Yorker | [9] | |
2013 | Andrea Barrett | The Particles | Tin House | |
Deborah Eisenberg | Your Duck Is My Duck | Fence | ||
Kelly Link | The Summer People | Tin House | ||
2014 | Mark Haddon | The Gun | Granta | |
Kristen Iskandrian | The Inheritors | Tin House | ||
Laura van den Berg | Opa-locka | The Southern Review | ||
2015 | Elizabeth McCracken | Birdsong from the Radio | Zoetrope: All-Story | |
Christopher Merkner | Cabins | Subtropics | ||
Dina Nayeri | A Ride Out of Phrao | The Alaska Quarterly Review | ||
2016 | Elizabeth Genovise | Irises | The Cimarron Review | |
Asako Serizawa | Train to Harbin | The Hudson Review | ||
Frederic Tuten | Winter, 1965 | BOMB | ||
2017 | Michelle Huneven | Too Good to Be True | Harper's | |
Amit Majmudar | Secret Lives of the Detainees | The Kenyon Review | ||
Fiona McFarlane | Buttony | The New Yorker | ||
2018 | Jo Ann Beard | The Tomb of Wrestling | Tin House | |
Marjorie Celona | Counterblast | The Southern Review | ||
2019 | Tessa Hadley | Funny Little Snake | The New Yorker | |
Rachel Kondo | Girl of Few Seasons | Ploughshares Solos | ||
Weike Wang | Omakase | The New Yorker | [10] |
Guest editor (2021–)
Year | Editor | Ref. |
---|---|---|
2021 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
2022 | Valeria Luiselli | [12] |
2023 | Lauren Groff |
See also
References
- ^ a b "Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave. "O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership" Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, "The New York Times Arts Beat", 2009-04-07.
- ^ "Two Literary Lions Merge", "Vintage Books", 2009-04-10.
- ^ a b "The O. Henry Prize Past Winners". Random House. Archived from the original on 2017-09-05. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^ a b "TWO WRITERS IN TIE FOR O. HENRY AWARD; W.R. Burnett and William M. John Share $500 Prize for Best Magazine Story in 1929". The New York Times. 1930-11-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "John Updike". Britannica. Archived from the original on 2023-02-21. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Alice Walker". Britannica. Archived from the original on 2023-02-21. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ a b "Alice Munro". Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-04. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ ""Omakase"". Literary Hub. 2019-05-16. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Collection". Penguin Randomhouse. Archived from the original on 2022-12-19. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction". Literary Hub. 2022-04-04. Archived from the original on 2022-12-22. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
External links
- Official website
- O. Henry Prize, PEN Announce Partnership
- 2009 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
- Three-time winners
- Past winners (by author, 1919–2017) at Random House (via Archive.org)
- Past winners (by date, 1919–1999) at Random House's Bold Type (via Archive.org)
- Compilations by year
- v
- t
- e
- "The Duplicity of Hargraves" (1902)
- "A Retrieved Reformation" (1903)
- "The Cop and the Anthem" (1904)
- "Makes the Whole World Kin" (1904)
- "The Last Leaf" (1905)
- "The Gift of the Magi" (1905)
- "The Skylight Room" (1906)
- "After Twenty Years" (1906)
- "Conscience in Art" (1907)
- "The Caballero's Way" (1907)
- "A Lickpenny Lover" (1908)
- "One Thousand Dollars" (1908)
- "The Third Ingredient" (1908)
- "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910)
- Cabbages and Kings (1904)
- The Four Million (1906)
- Roads of Destiny (1909)
- Whirligigs (1910)
- Waifs and Strays (1917)
- O. Henry Award
- William Sidney Porter House
- O. Henry House and Museum
- O. Henry Hall
- A Night in New Arabia (1917 film)
- O. Henry's Full House (1952 film)
- Strictly Business (1962 film)
- The Trust That Went Bust (1983 miniseries)
- Katha Sagar (1986 miniseries)