# Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, established in 1991, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awarded to authors' debut books of fiction. It is named for the Los Angeles Times' critic Art Seidenbaum who was also an author and editor. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

## Recipients

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1991 | David Wong Louie | Pangs of Love | Winner |
| 1992 | Darryl Pinckney | High Cotton | Winner |
| 1993 | Paul Kafka | Love | Winner |
| 1994 | Martin M. Šimecka | The Year of the Frog | Winner |
| 1995 | Mark Merlis | American Studies | Winner |
| 1996 | Mark Behr | The Smell of Apples | Winner |
| 1997 | Carolyn Ferrell | Don't Erase Me: Stories | Winner |
| 1998 | C. S. Godshalk | Kalimantaan | Winner |
| 1999 | Elizabeth Strout | Amy and Isabelle | Winner |
| 1999 | Galaxy Craze | By the Shore | Finalist |
| 1999 | Nathan Englander | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges | Finalist |
| 2000 | Pankaj Mishra | The Romantics | Winner |
| 2001 | Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | Winner |
| 2001 | Manil Suri | The Death of Vishnu | Finalist |
| 2002 | Arthur Phillips | Prague | Winner |
| 2003 | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Winner |
| 2004 | Lorraine Adams | Harbor | Winner |
| 2004 | Peter Duval | Rear View | Finalist |
| 2005 | Uzodinma Iweala | Beasts of No Nation | Winner |
| 2005 | Kirstin Allio | Garner | Finalist |
| 2006 | Alice Greenway | White Ghost Girls | Winner |
| 2006 | Jennifer Gilmore | Golden Country | Finalist |
| 2006 | Lisa Fugard | Skinner’s Drift | Finalist |
| 2007 | Dinaw Mengestu | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | Winner |
| 2007 | Ellen Litman | The Last Chicken in America | Finalist |
| 2007 | Rebecca Curtis | Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money | Finalist |
| 2008 | Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf | Winner |
| 2008 | Roma Tearne | Mosquito | Finalist |
| 2008 | David Wroblewski | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | Finalist |
| 2009 | Philipp Meyer | American Rust | Winner |
| 2009 | Daniyal Mueenuddin | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Finalist |
| 2009 | Paul Harding | Tinkers | Finalist |
| 2010 | Peter Bognanni | The House of Tomorrow | Winner |
| 2010 | Christine Sneed | Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry | Finalist |
| 2010 | Michael Sledge | The More I Owe You | Finalist |
| 2011 | Ismet Prcic | Shards | Winner |
| 2011 | Ben Lerner | Leaving the Atocha Station | Finalist |
| 2011 | Eleanor Henderson | Ten Thousand Saints | Finalist |
| 2011 | James Wallenstein | The Arriviste | Finalist |
| 2012 | Maggie Shipstead | Seating Arrangements | Winner |
| 2012 | David Abrams | Fobbit | Finalist |
| 2013 | NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | Winner |
| 2013 | Jamie Quatro | I Want To Show You More | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jeff Jackson | Mira Corpora | Finalist |
| 2013 | Fiona McFarlane | The Night Guest | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ethan Rutherford | The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | Valeria Luiselli with Christina MacSweeney (trans.) | Faces in the Crowd | Winner |
| 2014 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing | Finalist |
| 2014 | Valeria Luiselli | Faces in the Crowd | Finalist |
| 2014 | Diane Cook | Man V. Nature: Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | David James Poissant | The Heaven of Animals: Stories | Finalist |
| 2014 | John Darnielle | Wolf in White Van | Finalist |
| 2015 | Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Winner |
| 2016 | Nathan Hill | The Nix | Winner |
| 2017 | Jenny Zhang | Sour Heart | Winner |
| 2017 | Rachel Khong | Goodbye, Vitamin | Finalist |
| 2017 | Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Finalist |
| 2017 | Gabriel Tallent | My Absolute Darling | Finalist |
| 2017 | Elif Batuman | The Idiot | Finalist |
| 2018 | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Heads of the Colored People | Winner |
| 2018 | Lisa Halliday | Asymmetry | Finalist |
| 2018 | Katya Apekina | The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish | Finalist |
| 2018 | R. O. Kwon | The Incendiaries | Finalist |
| 2018 | Tommy Orange | There There | Finalist |
| 2019 | Namwali Serpell | The Old Drift | Winner |
| 2019 | De’Shawn Charles Winslow | In West Mills | Finalist |
| 2019 | Sarah Elaine Smith | Marilou Is Everywhere | Finalist |
| 2019 | Maria Gainza | Optic Nerve | Finalist |
| 2019 | Lila Savage | Say Say Say | Finalist |
| 2020 | Deesha Philyaw | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies | Winner |
| 2020 | Shruti Swamy | A House is a Body: Stories | Finalist |
| 2020 | Meng Jin | Little Gods | Finalist |
| 2020 | Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain | Finalist |
| 2020 | Maisy Card | These Ghosts Are Family | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jackie Polzin | Brood | Winner |
| 2021 | Natasha Brown | Assembly | Finalist |
| 2021 | Thomas Grattan | The Recent East | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | My Monticello: Fiction | Finalist |
| 2021 | Benjamín Labatut with Adrian Nathan West (trans.) | When We Cease to Understand the World | Finalist |
| 2022 | Aamina Ahmad | The Return of Faraz Ali: a novel | Winner |
| 2022 | Maayan Eitan | Love | Finalist |
| 2022 | Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | Finalist |
| 2022 | Oscar Hokeah | Calling for a Blanket Dance | Finalist |
| 2022 | Morgan Thomas | Manywhere: Stories | Finalist |
| 2023 | Shannon Sanders | Company: Stories | Winner |
| 2023 | Stephen Buoro | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2023 | Sheena Patel | I'm a Fan: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2023 | James Frankie Thomas | Idlewild: A Novel | Finalist |
| 2023 | Ghassan Zeineddine | Dearborn | Finalist |