O. Henry Awards

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 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998
  • Lorrie Moore : "People Like That Are the Only People Here in The New Yorker, January 27, 1997
1997 1996
  • Stephen King : "The Man in the Black Suit in The New Yorker, October 31, 1994
1995 1994 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 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983
  • Raymond Carver : "A Small, Good Thing in Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 3
1982 1981 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 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 1972
  • John Batki : "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie in The New Yorker, March 20, 1971
1971 1970
  • Robert Hemenway : "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles in The New Yorker, January 11, 1969
1969 1968
  • Eudora Welty : "The Demonstrators in The New Yorker, November 26, 1966
1967 1966
  • John Updike : "The Bulgarian Poetess in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965
1965 1964
  • John Cheever : "The Embarkment for Cythera in The New Yorker, November 3, 1962
1963 1962 1961
  • Tillie Olson : "Tell Me a Riddle in New World Writing, No. 16
1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944 1943 1942 1941 1940 1939 1938
  • Albert Maltz : "The Happiest Man on Earth in Harper's Magazine
1937 1936 1935
  • Kay Boyle : "The White Horses of Vienna in Harper's Magazine
1934
  • Louis Paul : "No More Trouble for Jedwick in Esquire
1933 1932 1931 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1925 1924 1923 1922 1921 1920 1919

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