Der O.-Henry-Preis (O. Henry Award) ist ein jährlich vergebener Literaturpreis für englischsprachige Kurzgeschichten, die im Zähljahr in den Vereinigten Staaten oder in Kanada veröffentlicht wurden. Der Preis ist nach dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller O. Henry benannt und wird seit 1919 verliehen.
Preisträger – First Prize 2019: Weike Wang, Omakase; Rachel Kondo, Girl of Few Seasons; Tessa Hadley, Funny Little Snake 2018: Jo Ann Beard, The Tomb of Wrestling; Marjorie Celona, Counterblast 2017: Michelle Huneven, Too Good to Be True; Amit Majmudar, Secret Lives of the Detainees; Fiona McFarlane, Buttony 2016: Asako Serizawa, Train to Harbin; Frederic Tuten, Winter, 1965; Elizabeth Genovise, Irises 2015: Dina Nayeri, A Ride Out of Phrao; Elizabeth McCracken, Birdsong from the Radio; Christopher Merkner, Cabins 2014: Mark Haddon, The Gun; Kristen Iskandrian, The Inheritors; Laura van den Berg, Opa-locka 2013: Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck Is My Duck; Kelly Link, The Summer People; Andrea Barrett, The Particles 2012: Yiyun Li, Kindness; Alice Munro, Corrie 2011: Lynn Freed, Sunshine; Matthew Neill Null, Something You Can’t Live Without; Jim Shepard, Your Fate Hurtles Down at You 2010: Daniyal Mueenuddin, A Spoiled ManA Spoiled Man. In: The New Yorker vom 15. September 2008; James Lasdun, Oh, DeathThe Hollow. In: The Paris Review Ausgabe #188/2009; William Trevor: The Woman of the HouseThe Woman of the House. In: The New Yorker vom 15. Dezember 2008 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 à 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; A. S. Byatt, The Thing in the Forest; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The American Embassy 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) 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; Gordon Lish, For Jeromé — with Love and Kisses 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; Anne Leaton, The Passion of Marco Z 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; 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: Terry Southern, The Road Out of Axotle; 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 1959: Peter Taylor, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time 1958: Martha Gellhorn, In Sickness as in Health 1957: Flannery O’Connor, Greenleaf 1956: John Cheever, The Country Husband 1955: Jean Stafford, In the Zoo 1954: Thomas Mabry, The Indian Feather 1953: keine Vergabe 1952: keine Vergabe 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
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Kategorie:Literaturpreis (Vereinigte Staaten) Kategorie:Literatur (Englisch) Kategorie:Kurzgeschichte Kategorie:Erstverleihung 1919