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2023 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize was awarded to Tyriek White for his debut novel We Are a Haunting (Astra House)
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2022 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize was awarded to Noor Naga for her debut novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English...
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2021 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize was awarded to Kirstin Valdez Quade for her debut novel The Five Wounds (W
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2020 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2020 First Novel Prize was awarded to Raven Leilani for her debut novel Luster (Farrar, Straus...
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2019 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2019 First Novel Prize was awarded to De’Shawn Charles Winslow for his debut novel In West Mills...
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2018 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2018 First Novel Prize was awarded to Tommy Orange for his debut novel There There (Alfred A
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2017 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2017 First Novel Prize was awarded to Julie Lekstrom Hines for her debut novel Mikhail and Margarita...
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2016 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2016 First Novel Prize was awarded to Kia Corthron for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet...
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2015 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2015 First Novel Prize was awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen for his debut novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press)
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2014 First Novel Prize

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The Center for Fiction 2014 First Novel Prize (then called the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize) was awarded to Tiphanie Yanique...