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Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - Wikipedia

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The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize is an annual award presented by the Center for Fiction, a non-profit organization in New York City, for the best debut novel. From 2006 to 2011, it was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize in honor of John Turner Sargent, Sr.. From 2011 to 2014, it was known as the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, named for Center for Fiction board member Nancy Dunnan and her journalist father Ray W. Flaherty.^[1]

Publishers nominate English-language works by first-time United States novelists.^[2]^[3] There is a two-tiered selection process for the prize. First, the nominees are read by a network of booklovers (referred to as Common Readers), including librarians, writers, staff, members, and friends of The Center for Fiction, giving rise to a long list of recommended books. Next, the Common Readers' long list is forwarded to a committee of distinguished American writers, who select a short list, typically comprising five to seven titles, which is publicly announced in the late summer. All finalists are invited to read from their works at a First Novel Fête. The winning novel is announced at an awards event—both of these events usually occur in December. The winning novelist receives a cash prize of $10,000; each finalist receives $1,000.^[4]

Recipients

First Novel Prize winners and nominees
Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Marisha Pessl	Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Winner	^[5]^[6]
	Marie Arana	Cellophane	Shortlist	^[5]
	Nell Freudenberger	The Dissident
	Peter Orner	The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo
	Patrick Ryan	Send Me
2007	Junot Díaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Winner	^[7]^[6]
	Daniel Alarcón	Lost City Radio	Shortlist	^[7]^[8]
	Mischa Berlinski	Fieldwork
	Jon Clinch	Finn
	Nathan Englander	The Ministry of Special Cases
	Austin Grossman	Soon I Will Be Invincible
	Ehud Havazelet	Bearing the Body
2008	Hannah Tinti	The Good Thief	Winner	^[9]^[6]
	Stefan Merrill Block	The Story of Forgetting	Shortlist	^[9]
	Rivka Galchen	Atmospheric Disturbances
	Beth Helms	Dervishes
	Peter Manseau	Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
	Ed Park	Personal Days
	David Wroblewski	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
2009	John Pipkin	Woodsburner	Winner	^[10]
	Paul Harding	Tinkers	Shortlist	^[10]
	Yiyun Li	The Vagrants
	Philipp Meyer	American Rust
	Patrick Somerville	The Cradle
2010	Karl Marlantes	Matterhorn	Winner	^[11]
	Michelle Hoover	The Quickening	Shortlist	^[11]
	Jessica Francis Kane	The Report
	Maaza Mengiste	Beneath the Lion's Gaze
	Julie Orringer	The Invisible Bridge
	Drew Perry	This Is Just Exactly Like You
	Adam Ross	Mr. Peanut
2011	Bonnie Nadzam	Lamb	Winner	^[12]^[13]
	Sarah Braunstein	The Sweet Relief of Missing Children	Shortlist	^[12]^[14]
	Carolyn Cooke	Daughters of the Revolution
	Ida Hattemer-Higgins	The History of History
	Ismet Prcic	Shards
	David Vann	Caribou Island
	Alexi Zentner	Touch
2012	Ben Fountain	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	Winner	^[15]^[16]
	Patrick Flanery	Absolution	Shortlist	^[15]
	Tupelo Hassman	Girlchild
	Peter Heller	The Dog Stars
	Eowyn Ivey	The Snow Child
	Kevin Powers	The Yellow Birds
	Maggie Shipstead	Seating Arrangements
	G. Willow Wilson	Alif the Unseen
2013	Margaret Wrinkle	Wash	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Lea Carpenter	Eleven Days	Shortlist	^[17]^[19]
	Marjorie Celona	Y
	Christopher Hacker	The Morels
	Mitchell S. Jackson	The Residue Years
	Anthony Marra	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
	Kirstin Scott	Motherlunge
	Taiye Selasi	Ghana Must Go
2014	Tiphanie Yanique	Land of Love and Drowning	Winner	^[20]^[21]
	Rene Denfeld	The Enchanted	Shortlist	^[22]^[20]
	Smith Henderson	Fourth of July Creek
	Vanessa Manko	The Invention of Exile
	Matthew Thomas	We Are Not Ourselves
	Ted Thompson	The Land of Steady Habits
	Josh Weil	The Great Glass Sea
2015	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer	Winner	^[23]^[24]^[25]
	Angela Flournoy	The Turner House	Shortlist	^[23]^[26]
	Tanwi Nandini Islam	Bright Lines
	Sophie McManus	The Unfortunates
	Ben Metcalf	Against the Country
	Chigozie Obioma	The Fishermen
	Lori Ostlund	After the Parade
2016	Kia Corthron	The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter	Winner	^[27]^[28]
	Emma Cline	The Girls	Shortlist	^[27]^[29]
	Nicole Dennis-Benn	Here Comes the Sun
	Kaitlyn Greenidge	We Love You, Charlie Freeman
	Garth Greenwell	What Belongs to You
	Yaa Gyasi	Homegoing
	Krys Lee	How I Became a North Korean
2017	Julie Lekstrom Himes	Mikhail and Margarita	Winner	^[30]^[31]
	Bethany Ball	What to Do About the Solomons	Shortlist	^[30]^[32]
	Jaroslav Kalfař	Spaceman of Bohemia
	Annabelle Kim	Tiger Pelt
	Simeon Marsalis	As Lie Is to Grin
	Susan Rivers	The Second Mrs. Hockaday
	Kaitlin Solimine	Empire of Glass
2018	Tommy Orange	There There	Winner	^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]
	Jen Beagin	Pretend I'm Dead	Shortlist	^[33]^[37]
	Akwaeke Emezi	Freshwater
	Lisa Halliday	Asymmetry
	Tadzio Koelb	Trenton Makes
	Jordy Rosenberg	Confessions of the Fox
	Nafkote Tamirat	The Parking Lot Attendant
2019	De'Shawn Charles Winslow	In West Mills	Winner	^[38]^[39]^[35]
	Chia-Chia Lin	The Unpassing	Shortlist	^[40]^[41]^[42]
	Julia Phillips	Disappearing Earth
	Pitchaya Sudbanthad	Bangkok Wakes to Rain
	Ocean Vuong	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
	Joe Wilkins	Fall Back Down When I Die
	Lauren Wilkinson	American Spy
2020	Raven Leilani	Luster	Winner	^[43]^[44]^[35]
	Amina Cain	Indelicacy	Shortlist	^[45]^[43]^[46]^[47]
	Maisy Card	These Ghosts Are Family
	Hilary Leichter	Temporary
	Corey Sobel	The Redshirt
	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain
	C Pam Zhang	How Much of These Hills Is Gold
2021	Kirstin Valdez Quade	The Five Wounds	Winner	^[48]^[49]
	Priyanka Champaneri	The City of Good Death	Shortlist	^[48]^[50]
	Linda Rui Feng	Swimming Back to Trout River
	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
	Violet Kupersmith	Build Your House Around My Body
	Patricia Lockwood	No One Is Talking About This
	Jackie Polzin	Brood
2022	Noor Naga	If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English	Winner	^[51]^[52]^[53]
	Daphne Palasi Andreades	Brown Girls	Shortlist	^[54]^[55]^[56]
	Jessamine Chan	The School for Good Mothers
	Isabel Kaplan	NSFW
	Alyssa Songsiridej	Little Rabbit
	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan	Big Girl
	Vauhini Vara	The Immortal King Rao
2023	Tyriek White	We Are a Haunting	Winner	^[57]
	Elizabeth Acevedo	Family Lore	Shortlist	^[58]
	Christine Byl	Lookout
	Eskor David Johnson	Pay as You Go
	Jamila Minnicks	Moonrise Over New Jessup
	Tracey Rose Peyton	Night Wherever We Go
	Esther Yi	Y/N
2024	Rita Bullwinkel	Headshot	Shortlist	^[59]
	Ruthvika Rao	The Fertile Earth
	Mai Sennaar	They Dream in Gold
	Clare Sestanovich	Ask Me Again
	Morgan Talty	Fire Exit
	Joseph Earl Thomas	God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
	Ledia Xhoga	Misinterpretation

References

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