# Young Lions Fiction Award

The Young Lions Fiction Award is an annual US literary prize of $10,000, awarded to a writer who is 35 years old or younger for a novel or collection of short stories. The award was established in 2001 by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, Hannah McFarland, and the New York Public Library. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members (a New York Public Library membership aimed at people in their 20s and 30s), writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of judges selects the winner.

## Recipients

Past winners and finalists :
| Year | Winner | Finalists | Judges |
| 2001 | Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves | David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl Myla Goldberg, Bee Season Heidi Julavits, The Mineral Palace  Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng | Michael Chabon, A.M. Homes, Francine Prose |
| 2002 | Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days | David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park Peter Orner, Esther Stories Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint | Andrea Barrett, Mark Danielweski, Jonathan Lethem |
| 2003 | Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector; Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated | Adam Johnson, Emporium Ben Marcus, Notable American Women Peter Rock, The Ambidextrist | Joyce Carol Oates, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead |
| 2004 | Monique Truong, The Book of Salt | Jordan Ellenberg, The Grasshopper King Susan Choi, American Woman Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House Maile Meloy, Liars and Saints | Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maureen Howard |
| 2005 | Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli | Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine is Sleeping Stephen Elliott, Happy Baby Aaron Gwyn, Dog on the Cross | Siri Hustvedt, Colum McCann, Monique Truong |
| 2006 | Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation | Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners Ander Monson, Other Electricities Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor | Rick Moody, Edmund White, Andrew Sean Greer |
| 2007 | Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov | Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead Tony D'Souza, Whiteman Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves | Kathryn Harrison, Jeff Talarigo, Uzodinma Iweala |
| 2008 | Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead | Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken In America Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World | Olga Grushin, Han Ong, Helen Schulman |
| 2009 | Salvatore Scibona, The End | Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances Sana Krasikov, One More Year Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey | André Aciman, Lore Segal, Ron Currie, Jr. |
| 2010 | Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned | Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection Katie Kitamura, The Longshot C.E. Morgan, All the Living Philipp Meyer, American Rust | Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Salvatore Scibona |
| 2011 | Adam Levin, The Instructions | John Brandon, Citrus County Patricia Engel, Vida Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil | Maile Chapman, Andrew Sean Greer, Kelly Link |
| 2012 | Karen Russell, Swamplandia! | Teju Cole, Open City Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones | Álvaro Enrique, A.M. Homes, Adam Levin |
| 2013 | Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn | Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds | Karen Russell, John Wray, Peter Nathaniel Malae |
| 2014 | Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters | Matt Bell, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water | Téa Obreht, Colm Tóibín, Claire Vaye Watkins |
| 2015 | Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans | Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun Catherine Lacey, Nobody is Ever Missing Andrew Ladd, What Ends Ben Lerner, 10:04 | Ayana Mathis, Rebecca Mead, Paul Yoon |
| 2016 | Amelia Gray, Gutshot | Angela Flournoy, The Turner House Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas | Molly Antopol, Joseph O'Neill, Alejandro Zambra |
| 2017 | Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs | Clare Beams, We Show What We Have Learned Brit Bennett, The Mothers Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman | Amelia Gray, Susan Minot, Salvatore Scibon |
| 2018 | Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky | Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida Emily Ruskovich, Idaho Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart | Carys Davies, Lynn Lobash, Karan Mahajan |
| 2019 | Ling Ma, Severance | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black Nick Drnaso, Sabrina Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel | Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Marisa Silvers |
| 2020 | Bryan Washington, Lot | Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies | Ethan Hawke, Mitchell Jackson, Ling Ma |
| 2021 | Catherine Lacey, Pew | Meng Jin, Little Gods Hilary Leichter, Temporary Brandon Taylor, Real Life C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold | Hernan Diaz, Emma Straub, Yahdon Israel |
| 2022 | Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land | Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck Alexandra Kleeman, Something Under the Sun Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat | Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey |
| 2023 | Zain Khalid, Brother Alive | Fatimah Asghar, When We Were Sisters Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation Reyes Ramirez, The Book of Wanderers David Sanchez, All Day is a Long Time | Jessamine Chan, Claire Luchette, and Kalani Pickhart |
| 2024 | E.J. Koh, The Liberators | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All-Stars Monica Brashears, House of Cotton Eskor David Johnson, Pay As You Go C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey | A. M. Homes, Caoilinn Hughes, and, Zain Khalid |