O.-Henry-Preis

Der O.-Henry-Preis ist ein jährlich vergebener Literaturpreis für englischsprachige Kurzgeschichten. Der Preis ist nach dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller O. Henry benannt und wird seit 1919 verliehen.

Preisträger - First Prize

• 2010 Daniyal Mueenuddin: A Spoiled Man^[1]; James Lasdun: Oh, Death ^[2]; William Trevor: The Woman of the House^[3]
• 2009 Graham Joyce: An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen; Junot Díaz: Wildwood
• 2008 Alexi Zentner: Touch; Alice Munro: What Do You Want To Know For?; William Trevor: Folie a Deux
• 2007 Eddie Chuculate: Galveston Bay, 1826; William Trevor: The Room
• 2006 Edward P. Jones: Old Boys, Old Girls; Deborah Eisenberg: Window; Alice Munro: Passion
• 2005 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Refuge in London; Sherman Alexie: What You Pawn I Will Redeem; Elizabeth Stuckey-French: Mudlavia
• 2004 keine Vergabe
• 2003 Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams"; Antonia Susan Byatt: "The Thing in the Forest"
• 2002 Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling"
• 2001 Mary Swan: "The Deep"
• 2000 John Edgar Wideman: "Weight"
• 1999 Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story"
• 1998 Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here"
• 1997 Mary Gordon: "City Life"
• 1996 Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit" (siehe Im Kabinett des Todes: Der Mann im schwarzen Anzug)
• 1995 Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go"
• 1994 Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight"
• 1993 Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest"
• 1992 Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired"
• 1991 John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse"
• 1990 Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition"
• 1989 Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks"
• 1988 Raymond Carver: "Errand"
• 1987 Louise Erdrich: "Fleur", Joyce Johnson : "The Children's Wing"
• 1986 Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits"
• 1985 Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice", Jane Smiley : "Lily"
• 1984 Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa"
• 1983 Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing"
• 1982 Susan Kenney: "Facing Front"
• 1981 Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl"
• 1980 Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish"
• 1979 Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious"
• 1978 Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode"
• 1977 Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short", Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies"
• 1976 Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft"
• 1975 Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode"
• 1973 Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)"
• 1974 Renata Adler: "Brownstone"
• 1973 Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead"
• 1972 John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie"
• 1971 Florence M Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge"
• 1970 Robert Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles"
• 1969 Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer"
• 1968 Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators"
• 1967 Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice"
• 1966 John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess"
• 1965 Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation"
• 1964 John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera"
• 1963 Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
• 1962 Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday"
• 1961 Tillie Olson: "Tell Me a Riddle"
• 1960 Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59
• 1959 Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review
• 1958 Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly
• 1957 Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review
• 1956 John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker
• 1955 Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker
• 1954 Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather"
• 1951 Harris Downey: "The Hunters"
• 1950 Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal"
• 1949 William Faulkner: "A Courtship"
• 1948 Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door"
• 1947 John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle"
• 1946 John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song"
• 1945 Walter van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter"
• 1944 Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded"
• 1943 Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back"
• 1942 Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net"
• 1941 Kay Boyle: "Defeat"
• 1940 Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing"
• 1939 William Faulkner: "Barn Burning"
• 1938 Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth"
• 1937 Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
• 1936 James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger"
• 1935 Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna"
• 1934 Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick"
• 1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un"
• 1932 Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams"
• 1931 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself"
• 1930 W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up"; William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek"
• 1929 Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde"
• 1928 Walter Duranty: "The Parrot"
• 1927 Roarke Bradford: "Child of God"
• 1926 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles"
• 1925 Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess"
• 1924 Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight"
• 1923 Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude"
• 1922 Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor"
• 1921 Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara"
• 1920 Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation"
• 1919 Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America"

Weblinks

• The O. Henry Award

Einzelnachweise

1. ↑ The New Yorkervom 15. September 2008: "A Spoiled Man"
2. ↑ The Paris Review Ausgabe #188/2009: "The Hollow"
3. ↑ The New Yorker vom 15. Dezember 2008: "The Woman of the House"