O.-Henry-Preis

Der O.-Henry-Preis (O. Henry Award) ist ein jährlich vergebener Literaturpreis für englischsprachige Kurzgeschichten, die im Zähljahr in den Vereinigten Staaten oder in Kanada veröffentlicht wurden. Der Preis ist nach dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller O. Henry benannt und wird seit 1919 verliehen.

Preisträger – First Prize

2019: Weike Wang, Omakase; Rachel Kondo, Girl of Few Seasons; Tessa Hadley, Funny Little Snake
2018: Jo Ann Beard, The Tomb of Wrestling; Marjorie Celona, Counterblast
2017: Michelle Huneven, Too Good to Be True; Amit Majmudar, Secret Lives of the Detainees; Fiona McFarlane, Buttony
2016: Asako Serizawa, Train to Harbin; Frederic Tuten, Winter, 1965; Elizabeth Genovise, Irises
2015: Dina Nayeri, A Ride Out of Phrao; Elizabeth McCracken, Birdsong from the Radio; Christopher Merkner, Cabins
2014: Mark Haddon, The Gun; Kristen Iskandrian, The Inheritors; Laura van den Berg, Opa-locka
2013: Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck Is My Duck; Kelly Link, The Summer People; Andrea Barrett, The Particles
2012: Yiyun Li, Kindness; Alice Munro, Corrie
2011: Lynn Freed, Sunshine; Matthew Neill Null, Something You Can’t Live Without; Jim Shepard, Your Fate Hurtles Down at You
2010: Daniyal Mueenuddin, A Spoiled Man^[1]; James Lasdun, Oh, Death^[2]; William Trevor: The Woman of the House^[3]
2009: Graham Joyce, An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen; Junot Díaz, Wildwood
2008: Alexi Zentner, Touch; Alice Munro, What Do You Want To Know For?; William Trevor, Folie à Deux
2007: Eddie Chuculate, Galveston Bay, 1826; William Trevor, The Room
2006: Edward P. Jones, Old Boys, Old Girls; Deborah Eisenberg, Window; Alice Munro, Passion
2005: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Refuge in London; Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem; Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Mudlavia
2004: keine Vergabe
2003: Denis Johnson, Train Dreams; A. S. Byatt, The Thing in the Forest; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The American Embassy
2002: Kevin Brockmeier, The Ceiling
2001: Mary Swan, The Deep
2000: John Edgar Wideman, Weight
1999: Peter Baida, A Nurse’s Story
1998: Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here
1997: Mary Gordon, City Life
1996: Stephen King, The Man in the Black Suit (siehe Im Kabinett des Todes)
1995: Cornelia Nixon, The Women Come and Go
1994: Alison Baker, Better Be Ready ’Bout Half Past Eight
1993: Thom Jones, The Pugilist at Rest
1992: Cynthia Ozick, Puttermesser Paired
1991: John Updike, A Sandstone Farmhouse
1990: Leo E. Litwak, The Eleventh Edition
1989: Ernest J. Finney, Peacocks
1988: Raymond Carver, Errand
1987: Louise Erdrich, Fleur; Joyce Johnson, The Children’s Wing
1986: Alice Walker, Kindred Spirits
1985: Stuart Dybek, Hot Ice; Jane Smiley, Lily
1984: Cynthia Ozick, Rosa; Gordon Lish, For Jeromé — with Love and Kisses
1983: Raymond Carver, A Small, Good Thing
1982: Susan Kenney, Facing Front
1981: Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl
1980: Saul Bellow, A Silver Dish
1979: Gordon Weaver, Getting Serious; Anne Leaton, The Passion of Marco Z
1978: Woody Allen, The Kugelmass Episode
1977: Shirley Hazzard, A Long Story Short; Ella Leffland, Last Courtesies
1976: Harold Brodkey, His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft
1975: Harold Brodkey, A Story in an Almost Classical Mode; Cynthia Ozick, Usurpation (Other People’s Stories)
1974: Renata Adler, Brownstone
1973: Joyce Carol Oates, The Dead
1972: John Batki, Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie
1971: Florence M. Hecht, Twin Bed Bridge
1970: Robert Hemenway, The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles
1969: Bernard Malamud, Man in the Drawer
1968: Eudora Welty, The Demonstrators
1967: Joyce Carol Oates, In the Region of Ice
1966: John Updike, The Bulgarian Poetess
1965: Flannery O’Connor, Revelation
1964: John Cheever, The Embarkment for Cythera
1963: Terry Southern, The Road Out of Axotle; Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge;
1962: Katherine Anne Porter, Holiday
1961: Tillie Olson, Tell Me a Riddle
1960: Lawrence Sargent Hall, The Ledge
1959: Peter Taylor, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
1958: Martha Gellhorn, In Sickness as in Health
1957: Flannery O’Connor, Greenleaf
1956: John Cheever, The Country Husband
1955: Jean Stafford, In the Zoo
1954: Thomas Mabry, The Indian Feather
1953: keine Vergabe
1952: keine Vergabe
1951: Harris Downey, The Hunters
1950: Wallace Stegner, The Blue-Winged Teal
1949: William Faulkner, A Courtship
1948: Truman Capote, Shut a Final Door
1947: John Bell Clayton, The White Circle
1946: John Mayo Goss, Bird Song
1945: Walter van Tilburg Clark, The Wind and the Snow of Winter
1944: Irwin Shaw, Walking Wounded
1943: Eudora Welty, Livvie Is Back
1942: Eudora Welty, The Wide Net
1941: Kay Boyle, Defeat
1940: Stephen Vincent Benét, Freedom’s a Hard-Bought Thing
1939: William Faulkner, Barn Burning
1938: Albert Maltz, The Happiest Man on Earth
1937: Stephen Vincent Benét, The Devil and Daniel Webster
1936: James Gould Cozzens, Total Stranger
1935: Kay Boyle, The White Horses of Vienna
1934: Louis Paul, No More Trouble for Jedwick
1933: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gal Young Un
1932: Stephen Vincent Benét, An End to Dreams
1931: Wilbur Daniel Steele, Can’t Cross Jordan by Myself
1930: W. R. Burnett, Dressing-Up; William H. John, Neither Jew nor Greek
1929: Dorothy Parker, Big Blonde
1928: Walter Duranty, The Parrot
1927: Roarke Bradford, Child of God
1926: Wilbur Daniel Steele, Bubbles
1925: Julian Street, Mr. Bisbee’s Princess
1924: Inez Haynes Irwin, The Spring Flight
1923: Edgar Valentine Smith, Prelude
1922: Irvin S. Cobb, Snake Doctor
1921: Edison Marshall, The Heart of Little Shikara
1920: Maxwell Struthers Burt, Each in His Generation
1919: Margaret Prescott Montague, England to America