National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35
The National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 prize, established in 2006, is an annual honor presented by the National Book Foundation to five authors under the age of 35 who released their debut novel in the previous five years. Honorees are nominated by authors who were previously honored with a National Book Award or 5 Under 35 nomination. Honorees receive a $1,250 prize.[1]
Honorees
[edit]| Year | Honoree | Work | Nominator | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Amity Gaige | O My Darling (Other Press) | Christopher Sorrentino | |
| Samantha Hunt | The Seas Picador (Picador) | Rene Steinke | ||
| Bret Anthony Johnston | Corpus Christi: Stories (Random House) | Adam Haslett | ||
| Rattawut Lapcharoensap | Sightseeing (Grove Atlantic) | Joan Silber | ||
| ZZ Packer | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books, 2003) | Edward P. Jones | ||
| 2007 | Kirstin Allio | Garner (Coffee House Press, 2005) | Dana Spiotta | [3] |
| Dinaw Mengestu | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead Books, 2007) | Jess Walter | ||
| Asali Solomon | Get Down: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) | Jennifer Egan | ||
| Anya Ulinich | Petropolis (Viking Press, 2007) | Ken Kalfus | ||
| Charles Yu | Third Class Superhero (Harcourt, 2006) | |||
| 2008 | Matthew Eck | The Farther Shore (Milkweed Editions) | Joshua Ferris | |
| Keith Gessen | All the Sad Young Literary Men (Viking Press, 2008) | Jonathan Franzen | ||
| Sana Krasikov | One More Year: Stories (Spiegel & Grau) | Francine Prose | ||
| Nam Le | The Boat (Knopf) | Mary Gaitskill | ||
| Fiona Maazel | Last Last Chance (FSG) | Jim Shepard | ||
| 2009 | Ceridwen Dovey | Blood Kin (Viking) | Rachel Kushner | [4] |
| C. E. Morgan | All the Living (FSG) | Christine Schutt | ||
| Lydia Peelle | Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing (HarperCollins) | Salvatore Scibona | ||
| Karen Russell | St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage) | Dan Chaon | ||
| Josh Weil | The New Valley (Grove Press) | Lily Tuck | ||
| 2010 | Sarah Braunstein | The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (Norton, 2011) | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | [5] |
| Grace Krilanovich | The Orange Eats Creeps (Two Dollar Radio, 2010) | Scott Spencer | ||
| Téa Obreht | The Tiger’s Wife (Random House, 2011) | Colum McCann | ||
| Tiphanie Yanique | How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf, 2010) | Jayne Anne Phillips | ||
| Paul Yoon | Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009) | Kate Walbert | ||
| 2011 | Shani Boianjiu | The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Hogarth, 2013) | Nicole Krauss | [6][7] |
| Danielle Evans | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead, 2010) | Robert Stone | ||
| Mary Beth Keane | The Walking People (Mariner, 2009) | Julia Glass | ||
| Melinda Moustakis | Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories (University of Georgia Press, 2011) | Jaimy Gordon | ||
| John Corey Whaley | Where Things Come Back (Atheneum Books, 2011) | Oscar Hijuelos | ||
| 2012 | Jennifer duBois | A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dial Press, 2012) | Jennifer duBois | [8][9] |
| Stuart Nadler | The Book of Life (Reagan Arthur, 2011) | Edith Pearlman | ||
| Haley Tanner | Vaclav & Lena (Dial Press, 2012) | Téa Obreht | ||
| Justin Torres | We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) | Jessica Hagedorn | ||
| Claire Vaye Watkins | Battleborn (Riverhead, 2012) | Julie Otsuka | ||
| 2013 | Molly Antopol | The UnAmericans (Norton, 2014) | Jesmyn Ward | [10][11] |
| NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur, 2013) | Junot Díaz | ||
| Amanda Coplin | The Orchardist (Harper, 2012) | Louise Erdrich | ||
| Daisy Hildyard | Hunters in the Snow (Jonathan Cape, 2013) | Kevin Powers | ||
| Merritt Tierce | Love Me Back (Doubleday, 2014) | Ben Fountain | ||
| 2014 | Yelena Akhtiorskaya | Panic in a Suitcase (Riverhead, 2014) | Aleksandar Hemon | [12] |
| Alex Gilvarry | From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Viking, 2012) | Amy Bloom | ||
| Phil Klay | Redeployment (Penguin, 2014) | Andrea Barrett | ||
| Valeria Luiselli | Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, 2014) | Karen Tei Yamashita | ||
| Kirstin Valdez Quade | Night at the Fiestas (Norton, 2015) | Andre Dubus III | ||
| 2015 | Colin Barrett | Young Skins (Black Cat, 2015) | Paul Yoon | [13] |
| Angela Flournoy | The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) | ZZ Packer | ||
| Megan Kruse | Call Me Home (Hawthorne Books, 2015) | Phil Klay | ||
| Tracy O’Neill | The Hopeful (Ig Publishing, 2015) | Fiona Maazel | ||
| Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | Fra Keeler (Dorothy, 2012) | Dinaw Mengestu | ||
| 2016 | Brit Bennett | The Mothers (Riverhead, 2016) | Jacqueline Woodson | [14][15] |
| Yaa Gyasi | Homegoing (Knopf, 2016) | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| Greg Jackson | Prodigals (FSG) | Lauren Groff | ||
| S. Li | Transoceanic Lights (Harvard Square Editions) | Karen Bender | ||
| Thomas Pierce | Hall of Small Mammals (Riverhead) | Amity Gaige | ||
| 2017 | Lesley Nneka Arimah | What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Riverhead) | Chris Bachelder | [16][17] |
| Halle Butler | Jillian (Curbside Splendor) | Lydia Millet | ||
| Zinzi Clemmons | What We Lose (Viking, 2017) | Angela Flournoy | ||
| Leopoldine Core | When Watched: Stories (Penguin) | Karan Mahajan | ||
| Weike Wang | Chemistry (Knopf, 2017) | Sherman Alexie | ||
| 2018 | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | Friday Black (Mariner, 2018) | Colson Whitehead | [18] |
| Hannah Lillith Assadi | Sonora (Soho Press) | Claire Vaye Watkins | ||
| Akwaeke Emezi | Freshwater (Grove Atlantic, 2018) | Carmen Maria Machado | ||
| Lydia Kiesling | The Golden State (MCD Books) | Samantha Hunt | ||
| Moriel Rothman-Zecher | Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria) | Bill Clegg | ||
| 2019 | Anelise Chen | So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press) | Dana Spiotta | [19][20] |
| Isabella Hammad | The Parisian (Grove Press) | Viet Thanh Nguyen | ||
| Johannes Lichtman | Such Good Work (S&S) | Garth Greenwell | ||
| Bryan Washington | Lot: Stories (Riverhead Books) | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | ||
| Ashley Wurzbacher | Happy Like This (University of Iowa Press) | Brandon Hobson | ||
| 2020 | K-Ming Chang | Bestiary (One World) | Justin Torres | [21][22] |
| Naima Coster | Halsey Street (Little A) | Tayari Jones | ||
| Raven Leilani | Luster (FSG, 2020) | Susan Choi | ||
| Fatima Farheen Mirza | A Place for Us (SJP for Hogarth, 2018) | Tommy Orange | ||
| C Pam Zhang | How Much of These Hills Is Gold (Riverhead Books, 2020) | Marlon James | ||
| 2021 | Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water (Black Cat, 2021) | Brit Bennett | [23] |
| Nathan Harris | The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown and Company, 2021) | Charmaine Craig | ||
| Lee Lai | Stone Fruit (Fantagraphics, 2021) | Bryan Washington | ||
| Claire Luchette | Agatha of Little Neon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) | Elizabeth McCracken | ||
| Dantiel W. Moniz | Milk Blood Heat (Grove) | Rumaan Alam | ||
| 2022 | Alexandra Chang | Days of Distraction (Ecco) | Jason Mott | [24] |
| Joseph Han | Nuclear Family (Counterpoint Press) | Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | ||
| Crystal Hana Kim | If You Leave Me (William Morrow) | Min Jin Lee | ||
| Clare Sestanovich | Objects of Desire: Stories (Knopf) | Anthony Doerr | ||
| Alyssa Songsiridej | Little Rabbit (Bloomsbury) | Julia Phillips | ||
| 2023 | Mateo Askaripour | Black Buck (Mariner Books) | Robert Jones Jr. | [25][26] |
| Chelsea T. Hicks | A Calm & Normal Heart (Unnamed Press) | Louise Erdrich | ||
| Morgan Talty | Night of the Living Rez (Tin House Books) | Karen Russell | ||
| Jenny Xie | Holding Pattern (Riverhead Books, 2023) | Kirstin Valdez Quade | ||
| Ada Zhang | The Sorrows of Others (A Public Space) | Jamil Jan Kochai | ||
| 2024 | Antonia Angress | Sirens & Muses (Ballantine Books) | Charles Baxter | [27] |
| Maya Binyam | Hangman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023) | Alejandro Varela | ||
| Zain Khalid | Brother Alive (Grove Press, 2022) | Laila Lalami | ||
| Tyriek White | We Are a Haunting (Astra House) | Tiphanie Yanique | ||
| Jenny Tinghui Zhang | Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron Books) | Adam Johnson | ||
| 2025 | Stacie Shannon Denetsosie | The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories (Torrey House Press) | Mona Susan Power | [28] |
| Megan Howell | Softie (West Virginia University Press) | Deesha Philyaw | ||
| Maggie Millner | Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | C Pam Zhang | ||
| Alexander Sammartino | Last Acts (Scribner) | George Saunders | ||
| Jemimah Wei | The Original Daughter (Doubleday) | Morgan Talty |
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