Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Annual English-language literary award for debut novels
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The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, established in 1991, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awarded to authors' debut books of fiction. It is named for the Los Angeles Times' critic Art Seidenbaum, who was also an author and editor.[1] Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
| Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Country |  United States |
| Status | Active |
| First award | 1991 |
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | David Wong Louie | Pangs of Love | Winner | [2] |
| Louis Begley | Wartime Lies | Finalist | [3] | |
| Louis Edwards | Ten Seconds | |||
| Nico Ricci | The Book Of Saints | |||
| Whitney Otto | How To Make An American Quilt | |||
| 1992 | Darryl Pinckney | High Cotton | Winner | [4] |
| Jane Shapiro | After Moondog | Finalist | ||
| Linda Svendsen | Marine Life | |||
| Thulani Davis | 1959 | |||
| Wally Lamb | She's Come Undone | |||
| 1993 | Paul Kafka | Love | Winner | [5] |
| Amy Bloom | Come To Me | Finalist | ||
| Judy Troy | Mourning Doves | |||
| Laura Esquivel | Like Water For Chocolate | |||
| Rita Ciresi | Mother Rocket | |||
| 1994 | Martin Milan Šimečka | The Year of the Frog | Winner | [6] |
| Alain de Botton | On Love | Finalist | ||
| Graciela Limon | In Search Of Bernabé | |||
| Jose Barreiro | The Indian Chronicles | |||
| Sandra Benitez | A Place Where The Sea Remembers | |||
| 1995 | Mark Merlis | American Studies | Winner | [7] |
| A. J. Verdelle | The Good Negresse | Finalist | ||
| Andrew Solomon | A Stone Boat | |||
| Charles D'Ambrosio | The Point | |||
| Mukul Kesavan | Looking Through The Glass | |||
| 1996 | Mark Behr | The Smell of Apples | Winner | [8] |
| Mark Winegardner | The Veracruz Blues | Finalist | ||
| Daniel Akst | St. Burl's Obituary | |||
| Jose Raul Bernardo | The Secret Of The Bulls | |||
| Judith Farr | I Never Came To You In White | |||
| John Lanchester | The Debt To Pleasure | |||
| Eoin McNamee | Resurrection Man | |||
| Jane Mendelsohn | I Was Amelia Earhart | |||
| 1997 | Carolyn Ferrell | Don't Erase Me: Stories | Winner | [9] |
| Suzanne Berne | A Crime In The Neighborhood | Finalist | ||
| Michelle Huneven | Round Rock | |||
| Tara Ison | A Child Out Of Alcatraz | |||
| Arundhati Roy | The God Of Small Things | |||
| 1998 | C. S. Godshalk | Kalimantaan | Winner | [10] |
| Lan Samantha Chang | Hunger: A Novella and Stories | Finalist | ||
| Samantha Gillison | The Undiscovered Country | |||
| Nicholas Papandreou | A Crowded Heart | |||
| Bart Schneider | Blue Bossa | |||
| 1999 | Elizabeth Strout | Amy and Isabelle | Winner | [10] |
| Galaxy Craze | By the Shore | Finalist | ||
| Nathan Englander | For the Relief of Unbearable Urges | |||
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter Of Maladies | |||
| Jenny Offill | The Last Things | |||
| 2000 | Pankaj Mishra | The Romantics | Winner | [10] |
| Helen DeWitt | The Last Samurai | Finalist | ||
| Matthew Klam | Sam the Cat and other stories | |||
| Akhil Sharma | An Obedient Father | |||
| Zadie Smith | White Teeth | |||
| 2001 | Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | Winner | [10] |
| Manil Suri | The Death of Vishnu | Finalist | ||
| Nuala O'Faolain | My Dream Of You | |||
| Nani Power | Crawling At Night | |||
| John Wray | The Right Hand Of Sleep | |||
| 2002 | Arthur Phillips | Prague | Winner | [10] |
| Jay Basu | The Stars Can Wait | Finalist | ||
| Jonathan Safran Foer | Everything Is Illuminated | |||
| Nicole Krauss | Man Walks Into A Room | |||
| Hari Kunzru | The Impressionist | |||
| 2003 | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Winner | [11] |
| Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Finalist | ||
| David Marshall Chan | Goblin Fruit:Stories | |||
| John Murray | A Few Short Notes On Tropical Butterflies: Stories | |||
| Lara Vapnyar | There Are Jews In My House | |||
| 2004 | Lorraine Adams | Harbor | Winner | [12] |
| Pete Duval | Rear View | Finalist | ||
| David Bezmogis | Natasha and other stories | |||
| Susan Fletcher | Eve Green | |||
| Lisa Glatt | A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That | |||
| 2005 | Uzodinma Iweala | Beasts of No Nation | Winner | [13] |
| Kirstin Allio | Garner | Finalist | [14] | |
| Karen Fisher | A Sudden Country | |||
| Olga Grushin | The Dream Life Of Sukhanov | |||
| Marlon James | John Crow's Devil | |||
| 2006 | Alice Greenway | White Ghost Girls | Winner | [15][16] |
| Jennifer Gilmore | Golden Country | Finalist | [17] | |
| Lisa Fugard | Skinner’s Drift | |||
| Tony D'Souza | Whiteman | |||
| Janis Cooke Newman | Mary | |||
| 2007 | Dinaw Mengestu | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | Winner | [18] |
| Ellen Litman | The Last Chicken in America | Finalist | [18] | |
| Antonia Arslan | Skylark Farm | |||
| Pamela Erens | The Understory | |||
| Rebecca Curtis | Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money | |||
| 2008 | Zoë Ferraris | Finding Nouf | Winner | [19][20] |
| Roma Tearne | Mosquito | Finalist | [21] | |
| Uwem Akpan | Say You're One Of Them | |||
| Sadie Jones | The Outcast | |||
| David Wroblewski | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | |||
| 2009 | Philipp Meyer | American Rust | Winner | [22] |
| Daniyal Mueenuddin | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Finalist | [23] | |
| Paul Harding | Tinkers | |||
| Petina Gappah | An Elegy For Easterly | |||
| Wells Tower | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned | |||
| 2010 | Peter Bognanni | The House of Tomorrow | Winner | [24] |
| Christine Sneed | Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry | Finalist | [25] | |
| Michael Sledge | The More I Owe You | |||
| Tatjana Soli | The Lotus Eaters | |||
| Leslie Jamison | The Gin Closet | |||
| 2011 | Ismet Prcic | Shards | Winner | [26] |
| Ben Lerner | Leaving the Atocha Station | Finalist | [27] | |
| Eleanor Henderson | Ten Thousand Saints | |||
| Chad Harbach | The Art Of Fielding | |||
| James Wallenstein | The Arriviste | |||
| 2012 | Maggie Shipstead | Seating Arrangements | Winner | [28][29] |
| David Abrams | Fobbit | Finalist | [30] | |
| Kevin P. Keating | The Natural Order Of Things | |||
| Lydia Netzer | Shine Shine Shine | |||
| Robin Sloan | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | |||
| 2013 | NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | Winner | [28][29] |
| Jamie Quatro | I Want To Show You More | Finalist | [31] | |
| Jeff Jackson | Mira Corpora | |||
| Fiona McFarlane | The Night Guest | |||
| Ethan Rutherford | The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories | |||
| 2014 | Valeria Luiselli with Christina MacSweeney (trans.) | Faces in the Crowd | Winner | [32][33] |
| Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing | Finalist | [34] | |
| Diane Cook | Man V. Nature: Stories | |||
| David James Poissant | The Heaven of Animals: Stories | |||
| John Darnielle | Wolf in White Van | [34][35] | ||
| 2015 | Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Winner | [36] |
| Sarah Gerard | Binary Star | Finalist | ||
| Ben Metcalf | Against The Country | |||
| Sara Novic | Girl At War | |||
| Andrew Roe | The Miracle Girl | |||
| 2016 | Nathan Hill | The Nix | Winner | [37] |
| Sara Baume | Spill Simmer Falter Wither | Finalist | ||
| Mark Beauregard | Against The Country | |||
| Idra Novey | Ways To Disappear | |||
| Rebecca Schiff | The Bed Moved | |||
| 2017 | Jenny Zhang | Sour Heart | Winner | [38] |
| Rachel Khong | Goodbye, Vitamin | Finalist | [39][40] | |
| Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | |||
| Gabriel Tallent | My Absolute Darling | [40] | ||
| Elif Batuman | The Idiot | |||
| 2018 | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Heads of the Colored People | Winner | [41] |
| Lisa Halliday | Asymmetry | Finalist | [42] | |
| Katya Apekina | The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish | |||
| R. O. Kwon | The Incendiaries | |||
| Tommy Orange | There There | |||
| 2019 | Namwali Serpell | The Old Drift | Winner | [43][44] |
| De'Shawn Charles Winslow | In West Mills | Finalist | [45] | |
| Sarah Elaine Smith | Marilou Is Everywhere | |||
| Maria Gainza | Optic Nerve | |||
| Lila Savage | Say Say Say | |||
| 2020 | Deesha Philyaw | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies | Winner | [46][47] |
| Shruti Swamy | A House is a Body: Stories | Finalist | [48] | |
| Meng Jin | Little Gods | |||
| Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain | |||
| Maisy Card | These Ghosts Are Family | |||
| 2021 | Jackie Polzin | Brood | Winner | [49] |
| Natasha Brown | Assembly | Finalist | [50] | |
| Thomas Grattan | The Recent East | |||
| Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | My Monticello: Fiction | |||
| Benjamín Labatut with Adrian Nathan West (trans.) | When We Cease to Understand the World | |||
| 2022 | Aamina Ahmad | The Return of Faraz Ali: a novel | Winner | [51] |
| Maayan Eitan | Love | Finalist | [52] | |
| Sidik Fofana | Stories from the Tenants Downstairs | |||
| Oscar Hokeah | Calling for a Blanket Dance | |||
| Morgan Thomas | Manywhere: Stories | |||
| 2023 | Shannon Sanders | Company: Stories | Winner | [53] |
| Stephen Buoro | The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel | Finalist | [54] | |
| Sheena Patel | I'm a Fan: A Novel | |||
| James Frankie Thomas | Idlewild: A Novel | |||
| Ghassan Zeineddine | Dearborn | |||
| 2024 | Jiaming Tang | Cinema Love | Winner | [55] |
| Pemi Aguda | Ghostroots: Stories | Finalist | ||
| Joseph Earl Thomas | God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer | |||
| Jessica Elisheva Emerson | Olive Days | |||
| Julian Zabalbeascoa | What We Tried to Bury Grows Here | |||
| 2025 | Justin Haynes | Ibis: A Novel | Winner | [56] |
| Andy Anderegg | Plum | Finalist | ||
| Krystelle Bamford | Idle Grounds: A Novel | |||
| Addie E. Citchens | Dominion: A Novel | |||
| Saou Ichikawa | Hunchback: A Novel |