The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction was awarded by the editors of ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...

'' for what they deem to be the best short story published in the magazine in a given year. The last prize was given in 2004. No applications were accepted. The winner got $1,000. The prize was established by Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III, and was first awarded in 1956. Although the money awarded is the same as many other literary awards in the United States, since the magazine itself attracts some of the most highly regarded authors, the winners of the prize are often highly esteemed writers, most of whom previously won other major literary awards or go on to do so, or both.

Winners

*2004:

Annie Proulx Edna Ann Proulx (; born August 22, 1935) is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx. She won the PEN/Faulkner Award fo ...

, Issue 171, " The Wamsutter Wolf" *2003:

Michael Chabon Michael Chabon ( ; born May 24, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, DC, he spent a year studying at Carnegie Mellon University before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, gr ...

, Issue 166, for "

The Final Solution The Final Solution (german: die Endlösung, ) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (german: Endlösung der Judenfrage, ) was a Nazi Germany, Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. The "Final ...

" *2002:

Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007) ...

, Issue 162, for "

Train Dreams ''Train Dreams'' is a novella by Denis Johnson. It was published on August 30, 2011, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was originally published, in slightly different form, in the Summer 2002 issue of ''The Paris Review''. The novella details the ...

" *2001:

Maile Meloy Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer. Early life and education Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvi ...

, Issue 158, "Aqua Boulevard" *2000: Marcel Moring, Issue 155, "East Bergholt" *1999:

Robert Antoni Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by ''The Paris Review'' for ''My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head''. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his work on the histo ...

, Issue 152, "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head" *1998:

Will Self William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English author, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. Sel ...

, Issue 146, "Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys" *1997:

David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...

, Issue 144, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6" *1996: Patricia Eakins, Issue 140, "The Garden of Fishes" *1995: A. S. Byatt, Issue 133, “

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye ''The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye'' is a 1994 collection of five mythical Short story, short stories by British novelist A. S. Byatt. The collection includes two short stories, "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Story" originally published in the ...

” *1994:

Rick Moody Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel ''The Ice Storm'', a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 19 ...

, Issue 131, "The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven" *1993:

Charles D'Ambrosio Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr (born 1958) is an American short story writer and essayist. Life The son of Charles D'Ambrosio, Sr (1932-2011), a professor of finance at the University of Washington, D'Ambrosio grew up with two brothers and four s ...

, Issue 126, "Her Real Name" *1992:

Joanna Scott Joanna Scott (born June 22, 1960) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her award-winning fiction is known for its wide-ranging subject matter and its incorporation of historical figures into imagined narratives. A native of ...

, Issue 123, "A Borderline Case" *1991:

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and'' The Marriage Plot'' ...

, Issue 117, “

The Virgin Suicides ''The Virgin Suicides'' is a 1993 debut novel by the American author Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five doomed sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is w ...

” *1990:

Larry Woiwode Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until his death. His work appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', '' H ...

, Issue 114, "Summer Storms" *1989:

John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry J ...

, Issue 113, "The Book of Evidence" *1987:

Ben Okri Ben Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-British poet and novelist.Ben Okri"
British Council, ...

, Issue 105, "The Dream-Vendor's August" *1985:

Michael Covino Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

, Issue 94, "Monologue of the Movie Mogul" *1984:

Norman Rush Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933) is an American writer most of whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He won the U.S. National Book Award and the 1992 ''Irish Times''/Aer Lingus International Fiction P ...

, Issue 93, "Instruments of Seduction" *1983: Charlie Smith, Issue 88, "Crystal River" *1982:

T. Coraghessan Boyle Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, also known as T. C. Boyle and T. Coraghessan Boyle (born December 2, 1948), is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the ...

, Issue 84, "Greasy Lake" *1979:

Norman Lock Norman Lock (13 March 1912 – February 1999) was an English cricketer. He played one first-class match for Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county ...

, Issue 76, "The Love of Stanley Marvel & Claire Moon" *1978:

Dallas Wiebe Dallas Wiebe (1930–2008) was an American writer, poet, and a professor of English. He is best known for his 1969 controversial novel, '' Skyblue the Badass''. The Newton, Kansas native was also a founder of the writing program at the University ...

, Issue 73, "Night Flight to Stockholm" *1977: C. W. Gusewelle, Issue 70, "Horst Wessel" *1976:

Bart Midwood Bart is a masculine given name, usually a diminutive of Bartholomew, sometimes of Barton, Bartolomeo, etc. Bart is a Dutch and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, and derives from the name ''Bartholomäus'', a German form of the biblical name ''Bartholo ...

, Issue 66, "John O'Neill versus the Crown" *1975:

David Evanier David Evanier is an American author. He is working on a biography of Morton Sobell. Thomas Mallon wrote in ''Newsday'' that Evanier's ''Red Love'' is "an irreverent novel about the case of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg" that was likely to " ...

, Issue 61, "Cancer of the Testicles" *1974:

Lamar Herrin Lamar or Lamarr is a word with multiple origins that may refer to: People *Lamar (given name), a list of people * Lamar (surname), a list of people Fictional characters *Hedley Lamarr, in Mel Brooks's movie ''Blazing Saddles'', played by Harvey ...

, Issue 59, "The Rio Loja Ringmaster" *1973: Paul West, Issue 57, "Tan Salaam" *1967:

Christina Stead Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a mem ...

, Issue 40, "George" *1965:

Jeremy Larner Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an author, poet, journalist and speechwriter. He won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing '' The Candidate.'' Childhood Jeremy Larner was born in New York, and grew up in Indianapolis, ...

, Issue 33, "Oh, the Wonder!” *1962: Albert J. Guerard, Issue 28, "The Lusts & Gratification of Andrada" *1961:

Thomas Whitbread Thomas Whitbread (alias Harcourt) (1618–30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit missionary and Christian martyr, martyr, wrongly convicted of conspiracy to murder Charles II of England and hanged during the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1929 by P ...

, Issue 24, "The Rememberer" *1958:

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

, Issue 19, "Epstein" *1956:

Gina Berriault Gina Berriault (January 1, 1926 – July 15, 1999), was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Berriault was born in Long Beach, California, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took ...

, Issue 12, "Around the Dear Ruin" *1956:

John Langdon John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, Issue 12, "The Blue Serge Suit" *1956:

Owen Dodson Owen Vincent Dodson (November 28, 1914 – June 21, 1983) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the leading African-American poets of his time, associated with the generation of black poets following the Harlem Renaissance ...

, Issue 12, "The Summer Fire" (2nd Prize:)

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External links

''Paris Review'' site including a listing of Aga Khan Prize winners
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aga Khan Prize For Fiction Fiction awards Awards established in 1956 1956 establishments in New York (state)

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