El Premi O. Henry ("O. Henry Award"), constitueix un dels guardons literaris més importants dels que es concedeixen als Estats Units. Van dirigits cada any a contes o relats breus d'elevat mèrit. Deuen el seu nom al mestre nord-americà del gènere, O. Henry (pseudònim de William Sydney Porter, 1862 — 1910).
Van ser concedits per primera vegada l'any 1919.
Cada any es publica el “O. Henry Prize Stories”, llibre de relats que reuneix les 20 millors històries del període i que es publica en revistes en llengua anglesa dels Estats Units i Canadà. Aquesta col·lecció, iniciada l'any 2003, es dedica a l'escriptor que hagi realitzat la millor contribució a l'art del conte. En aquest any es va concedir a Mavis Gallant, escriptora canadenca que resideix a París, França.
El guardó mateix es diu The O. Henry Award no Premi O. Henry, ja que fins fa poc havien guanyadors del primer, segon i tercer premi; actualment s'anomena The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, i la denominació original era Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards
Preferits del jurat, guanyadors del primer premi
Per obtenir més informació o completar llistes de guanyadors anuals, visiteu el lloc web The O. Henry Prize Stories.
2018 Fiona McFarlane Ottessa Moshfegh Elizabeth Tallent2017 Michelle Huneven: "Too Good to Be True" a Harper's Amit Majmudar: "Secret Lives of the Detainees" a The Kenyon Review Fiona McFarlane: "Buttony" a The New Yorker2016 Asako Serizawa: "Train to Harbin" a The Hudson Review Frederic Tuten: "Winter, 1965" a BOMB Elizabeth Genovise: "Irises" a Cimarron Review2015 Dina Nayeri: "A Ride Out of Phrao" a The Alaska Quarterly Review Elizabeth McCracken: "Birdsong from the Radio" a Zoetrope: All-Story Christopher Merkner: "Cabins" a Subtropics2014 Mark Haddon: "The Gun" a Granta Kristen Iskandrian: "The Inheritors" a Tin House Laura van den Berg: "Opa-locka" a The Southern Review2013 Deborah Eisenberg: "Your Duck Is My Duck" a Fence Kelly Link: "The Summer People" a Tin House Andrea Barrett: "The Particles" a Tin House2012 Yiyun Li: "Kindness" a A Public Space Alice Munro: "Corrie" a The New Yorker2011 Lynn Freed: "Sunshine" a Narrative Magazine Matthew Neill Null: "Something You Can't Live Without" a Oxford American Jim Shepard: "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You" a Electric Literature2010 Daniyal Mueenuddin: "A Spoiled Man" in The New Yorker setembre 15, 2008 James Lasdun: "Oh, Death" a The Paris Review as "The Hollow", Spring 2009 #188 William Trevor: "The Woman of the House" in The New Yorker, desembre 15, 20082009 Graham Joyce: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" a The Paris Review Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" a The New Yorker2008 Alexi Zentner: "Touch" a Tin House Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" a The American Scholar William Trevor: "Folie a Deux" a The New Yorker2007 Eddie Chuculate: "Galveston Bay, 1826" a Manoa, Vol 16., No. 2, Winter 2004 William Trevor: "The Room" a The New Yorker, maig 16, 20052006 Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" a The New Yorker, maig 3, 2004 Deborah Eisenberg: "Window" a Tin House, Issue 19, Spring 2004 Alice Munro: "Passion" a The New Yorker, març 22, 20042005 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" a Zoetrope, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 2003 Sherman Alexie: "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" a The New Yorker, abril 21, 2003 Elizabeth Stuckey-French: "Mudlavia" a The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 20032004 No edition2003 Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in The Paris Review, Summer 2002 A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" a The New Yorker, juny 3, 2002 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The American Embassy"2002 Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling” in McSweeney's, No. 72001 Mary Swan: "The Deep” a The Malahat Review, No. 1312000 John Edgar Wideman: "Weight” a The Callaloo Journal, Vol. 22, No. 31999 Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story” a The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 13, No. 31998 Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here” a The New Yorker, Gener 27, 19971997 Mary Gordon: "City Life” a Ploughshares, Vol. 22, No. 11996 Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit” a The New Yorker, octubre 31, 19941995 Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go” a New England Review, Spring 19941994 Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight” a The Atlantic Monthly, Gener 19931993 Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest” a The New Yorker, desembre 2, 19911992 Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired” a The New Yorker, octubre 8, 19901991 John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse” a The New Yorker, juny 11, 19901990 Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition” a TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter 19891989 Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks” a The Sewanee Review, Winter 19881988 Raymond Carver: "Errand” a The New Yorker, juny 1, 19871987 Louise Erdrich: "Fleur” in Esquire, agost 1986 Joyce Johnson: "The Children's Wing” a Harper's Magazine, Juliol 19861986 Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits” a Esquire, agost 19851985 Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice” a Antaeus Jane Smiley: "Lily” a The Atlantic Monthly1984 Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa” a The New Yorker, març 21, 1983 Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" in "The Antioch Review", Summer 1983, 19841983 Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing” a Ploughshares, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 & 31982 Susan Kenney: "Facing Front” a Epoch, Winter 19801981 Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl” a The New Yorker, maig 26, 1980 John Irving: "Interior Space” in "Fiction", Vol. 6, No. 2, 1980 James Tabor: "The Runner” in "The Washingtonian", setembre 19791980 Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish” a The New Yorker, setembre 25, 19781979 Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious” a The Sewanee Review, Fall 1977 Anne Leaton: "The Passion of Marco Z" a Transatlantic Review, 55/561978 Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode” a The New Yorker, maig 2, 19771977 Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short” a The New Yorker, Juliol 26, 1976 Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies” a Harper's Magazine, Juliol 19761976 Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft” a Esquire, agost 19751975 Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode” a The New Yorker, setembre 17, 1973 Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” a Esquire, maig 19741974 Renata Adler: "Brownstone” a The New Yorker, Gener 27, 19731973 Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead” a McCall's, Juliol 19711972 John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie” a The New Yorker, març 20, 19711971 Florence M. Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge” a The Atlantic Monthly, maig 19701970 Robert Welton Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles” a The New Yorker, Gener 11, 19691969 Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer” a The Atlantic Monthly, abril 19681968 Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators” a The New Yorker, novembre 26, 19661967 Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice” a The Atlantic Monthly, agost 19661966 John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess” a The New Yorker, març 13, 19651965 Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation” a The Sewanee Review, Spring 19641964 John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera” a The New Yorker, novembre 3, 19621963 Terry Southern: "The Road Out of Axotle" in "Esquire", August, 1962 Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge” a New World Writing1962 Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday” a The Atlantic Monthly, desembre 19601961 Tillie Olsen: "Tell Me a Riddle” a New World Writing, No. 161960 Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” a The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958–591959 Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” a The Kenyon Review1958 Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” a The Atlantic Monthly1957 Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” a The Kenyon Review1956 John Cheever: "The Country Husband” a The New Yorker1955 Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” a The New Yorker1954 Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather” a The Sewanee Review1951 Harris Downey: "The Hunters” a Epoch1950 Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal” a Harper's Magazine1949 William Faulkner: "A Courtship” a The Sewanee Review1948 Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door” a The Atlantic Monthly1947 John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle” a Harper's Magazine1946 John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song” a The Atlantic Monthly1945 Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter” in The Yale Review1944 Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded” a The New Yorker1943 Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back” a The Atlantic Monthly1942 Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net” a Harper's Magazine1941 Kay Boyle: "Defeat” a The New Yorker1940 Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing” a The Saturday Evening Post1939 William Faulkner: "Barn Burning” a Harper's Magazine1938 Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth” a Harper's Magazine1937 Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster” a The Saturday Evening Post1936 James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger” a The Saturday Evening Post, febrer 15, 19361935 Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna” a Harper's Magazine1934 Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick” a Esquire1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un” a Harper's Magazine, juny & Juliol 19321932 Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams” a Pictorial Review, febrer 19321931 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself” a Pictorial Review1930 W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up” a Harper's Magazine, novembre 1929 William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek” a Century Magazine, agost 19291929 Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde” a Bookman Magazine, febrer 19291928 Walter Duranty: "The Parrot” a Redbook, març 19281927 Roark Bradford: "Child of God” a Harper's Magazine, abril 19271926 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles” a Harper's Magazine1925 Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” a Redbook, maig 19251924 Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight” a McCall's, juny 19241923 Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude” a Harper's Magazine, maig 19231922 Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor” in Cosmopolitan, novembre 19221921 Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara” a Everybody's Magazine, Gener 19211920 Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation” a Scribner's Magazine, Juliol 19201919 Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America” a The Atlantic Monthly, setembre 1918
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