'''PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction''' is een Amerikaanse literatuurprijs, georganiseerd door de ''PEN/Faulkner Foundation''.

De prijs is vernoemd naar de schrijver Nobelprijs een fonds oprichtte voor jonge auteurs, en de schrijversorganisatie International PEN. De onderscheiding is gedoteerd met een geldbedrag van $15,000 en wordt sinds 1981 jaarlijks toegekend aan een Amerikaans auteur.

== Gelauwerden ==
*1981 Walter Abish, ''How German Is It''
*1982 David Bradley, ''The Chaneysville Incident''
*1983 Toby Olson, ''Seaview''
*1984 John Edgar Wideman, ''Sent for You Yesterday''
*1985 Tobias Wolff, ''The Barracks Thief''
*1986 Peter Taylor, ''The Old Forest''
*1987 Richard Wiley, ''Soldiers in Hiding''
*1988 T. Coraghessan Boyle, ''World's End''
*1989 James Salter, ''Dusk''
*1990 E.L. Doctorow, ''Billy Bathgate''
*1991 John Edgar Wideman, ''Philadelphia Fire''
*1992 Don DeLillo, ''Mao II''
*1993 Postcards''
*1994 Philip Roth, ''Operation Shylock''
*1995 David Guterson, ''Snow Falling on Cedars''
*1996 Richard Ford, ''Independence Day''
*1997 Gina Berriault, ''Women in Their Beds''
*1998 Rafi Zabor, ''The Bear Comes Home''
*1999 Michael Cunningham, ''The Hours''
*2000 Ha Jin, ''Waiting''
*2001 Philip Roth, ''The Human Stain''
*2002 Ann Patchett, ''Bel Canto''
*2003 Sabina Murray, ''The Caprices''
*2004 John Updike, ''The Early Stories''
*2005 Ha Jin, ''War Trash''
*2006 E.L. Doctorow, ''The March''
*2007 Philip Roth, ''Everyman''

The '''PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction''' is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year.  The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000.  The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to read from their works at the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings, "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers."  It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.

The award was first given in 1981.

==Fiction award winners==
*1981 Walter Abish, ''How German Is It''
*1982 David Bradley, ''The Chaneysville Incident''
*1983 Seaview''
*1984 John Edgar Wideman, ''Sent for You Yesterday''
*1985 Tobias Wolff, ''The Barracks Thief''
*1986 Peter Taylor, ''The Old Forest''
*1987 Richard Wiley, ''Soldiers in Hiding''
*1988 World's End''
*1989 Dusk''
*1990 E.L. Doctorow, ''Billy Bathgate''
*1991 John Edgar Wideman, ''Philadelphia Fire''
*1992 Don DeLillo, ''Mao II''
*1993 Postcards''
*1994 Philip Roth, ''Operation Shylock''
*1995 David Guterson, ''Snow Falling on Cedars''
*1996  Independence Day''
*1997 Gina Berriault, ''Women in Their Beds''
*1998 Rafi Zabor, ''The Bear Comes Home''
*1999 The Hours''
*2000 Waiting''
*2001 Philip Roth, ''The Human Stain''
*2002 Bel Canto''
*2003 Sabina Murray, ''The Caprices''
*2004 John Updike, ''The Early Stories''
*2005 Ha Jin, ''War Trash''
*2006 The March''
*2007 Everyman''
*2008 The Great Man''