William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
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2018
Fiction winner: In
the distance by Hérnan Díaz
Nonfiction winner: On
trails : an exploration by Robert Moor
2016
Fiction winner: Welcome to Braggsville : a novel by T. Geronimo Johnson
Nonfiction winner: Belief is its own kind of truth, maybe by Lori Jakiela
2014
Fiction winner: Long division : a novel by Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction winner:
The riddle of the labyrinth : the quest to crack an ancient code by Margalit
Fox
2012
Fiction winner:
Orientation : and other stories by Daniel Orozco
Nonfiction winner:
The sound of a wild snail eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
2010
Fiction winner:
Atmospheric disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Nonfiction winner: The king of vodka : the story of Pyotr Smirnov and the
upheaval of an empire by Linda Himelstein
2008
Fiction Winner: The
history of love by Nicole Krauss
Nonfiction winner: Dandelion through the crack : the Sato family quest for the
American dream by Kiyo Sato
2005
Fiction winner: The laments : a novel by George Hagen
Nonfiction winner:
The king of California : J. G. Boswell and the making of a secret American
empire by Mark Arax & Rick Wartzman
2003
Fiction winner:
Everything is illuminated : a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer