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