Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Recipients

Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

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Year	Winner	Collection	Shortlisted nominees & collections	Ref(s)

2005	Yiyun Li	A Thousand Years of Good Prayers	David Bezmozgis – Natasha and Other Stories Alice Hoffman – Blackbird House Bret Anthony Johnston – Corpus Christi Tim Winton – The Turning David Means – The Secret Goldfish

2006	Haruki Murakami	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman	Rachel Sherman – The First Hurt Samrat Upadhyay – The Royal Ghosts Rose Tremain – The Darkness of Wallis Simpson Philip Ó Ceallaigh – Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse Peter Stamm – In Strange Gardens and Other Stories

2007	Miranda July	No One Belongs Here More than You	Simon Robson – The Separate Heart and Other Stories Olaf Olafsson – Valentines Etger Keret – Missing Kissinger Manuel Muñoz – The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue Charlotte Grimshaw – Opportunity

2008	Jhumpa Lahiri	Unaccustomed Earth	No shortlist issued.

2009	Simon Van Booy	Love Begins in Winter	Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly Wells Tower – Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned Shih-Li Kow – Ripples and Other Stories Philip Ó Ceallaigh – The Pleasant Light of Day Charlotte Grimshaw – Singularity

2010	Ron Rash	Burning Bright	T. C.

2011	Edna O'Brien	Saints and Sinners	Yiyun Li, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl Alexander MacLeod, Light Lifting Suzanne Rivecca, Death is Not an Option Colm Tóibín, The Empty Family Valerie Trueblood, Marry or Burn

2012	Nathan Englander	What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank	Kevin Barry, Dark Lies the Island Fiona Kidman, The Trouble with Fire Sarah Hall, The Beautiful Indifference Etgar Keret, Suddenly a Knock on the Door Lucia Perillo, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain

2013	David Constantine	Tea at the Midland and Other Stories	Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13 Deborah Levy, Black Vodka Joyce Carol Oates, Black Dahlia & White Rose Peter Stamm, We're Flying Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

2014	Colin Barrett	Young Skins	Laura van den Berg, The Isle of Youth A. L.

2015	Carys Davies	The Redemption of Galen Pike	Karen Bender, Refund Tony Earley, Mr. Tall Kirsty Gunn, Infidelities Thomas McGuane, Crow Fair Alejandro Zambra, My Documents

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In 2008, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was won by Jhumpa Lahiri for Unaccustomed Earth with no shortlist.

final_sentence: In 2008, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award was won by Jhumpa Lahiri for Unaccustomed Earth with no shortlist.