The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The $5,000 prize is given for the best published first novel or collection of short stories in the preceding year. It was established in 1979 in memory of author Sue Kaufman.
1980 - Jayne Anne Phillips, Black Tickets1981 - Tom Lorenz, Guys Like Us1982 - Ted Mooney, Easy Travel to Other Planets1983 - Susanna Moore, My Old Sweetheart1984 - Denis Johnson, Angels1985 - Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine1986 - Cecile Pineda, Face1987 - Jeannette Haien, The All of It1988 - Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster1989 - Gary Krist, The Garden State1990 - Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All1991 - Charles Palliser, The Quincunx1992 - Alex Ullmann, Afghanistan1993 - Francisco Goldman, The Long Night of White Chickens1994 - Emile Capouya, In the Sparrow Hills1995 - Jim Grimsley, Winter Birds1996 - Peter Landesman, The Raven1997 - Brad Watson, Last Days of the Dog-Men1998 - Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain1999 - Michael Byers, The Coast of Good Intentions2000 - Nathan Englander, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges2001 - Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father2002 - Don Lee, Yellow2003 - Gabe Hudson, Dear Mr. President2004 - Nell Freudenberger, Lucky Girls2005 - John Dalton, Heaven Lake2006 - Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation2007 - Tony D'Souza, Whiteman2008 - Frances Hwang, Transparency2009 - Charles Bock, Beautiful Children2010 - Josh Weil, The New Valley2011 - Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park2012 - Ismet Prcic, Shards2013 - Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds2014 - Manuel Gonzales, The Miniature Wife2015 - Michael Carroll, Little Reef and Other Stories2016 - Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the FiestasSue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA