Aspen Words Literary Prize

The Aspen Words Literary Prize, established in 2018, is an annual literary award presented by Aspen Words, a literary center in Aspen, Colorado. The prize is presented to an author for "an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.”[1] Winners receive a $35,000 prize.[2]

Recipients
Aspen Words Literary Prize winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2018 Mohsin Hamid Exit West Winner [1][3]
Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Shortlist [4]
Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose
Samrat Upadhyay Mad Country
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing
Alain Mabanckou Black Moses Longlist [5]
Weike Wang Chemistry
Roxane Gay Difficult Women
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Harmless Like You
Shanthi Sekaran Lucky Boy
Vaddey Ratner Music of the Ghosts
Hala Alyan Salt Houses
Bandi (writer) The Accusation
Jean Hanff Korelitz The Devil and Webster
Megan Hunter The End We Start From
Curtis Dawkins The Graybar Hotel
Lisa Ko The Leavers
Jonathan Dee The Locals
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Refugees
Achy Obejas The Tower of the Antilles
2019 Tayari Jones An American Marriage Winner [1][6]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Shortlist [7]
David Chariandy Brother
Jennifer Clement Gun Love
Tommy Orange There There
Elaine Castillo America Is Not The Heart Longlist [8]
Will Mackin Bring Out the Dog
Akwaeke Emezi Freshwater
Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People
Neel Patel If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi
Jamel Brinkley Lucky Man
Ling Ma Severance
Gaël Faye Small Country
Sharon Bala The Boat People
R.O. Kwon The Incendiaries
Brandon Hobson Where the Dead Sit Talking
2020 Christy Lefteri The Beekeeper of Aleppo Winner [1][9]
Nicole Dennis-Benn Patsy Shortlist [10]
Brian Allen Carr Opioid, Indiana
Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive
Bryan Washington Lot
Steph Cha Your House Will Pay Longlist [11]
Angie Cruz Dominicana
Kali Fajardo-Anstine Sabrina & Corina
Laila Lalami The Other Americans
Beth Piatote The Beadworkers
Melissa Rivero The Affairs of the Falcóns
Maurice Carlos Ruffin We Cast a Shadow
Rion Amilcar Scott The World Doesn’t Require You
Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys
Jacqueline Woodson Red at the Bone
2021 Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman Winner [1][12]
Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World Shortlist [13]
Rumaan Alam Leave the World Behind
Danielle Evans The Office of Historical Corrections
Randall Kenan If I Had Two Wings: Stories
Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half Longlist [14]
Diane Cook The New Wilderness
Juliana Delgado Lopera Fiebre Tropical
Akwaeke Emezi The Death of Vivek Oji
Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom
Lydia Millet A Children’s Bible: A Novel
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi A Girl is a Body of Water
Tola Rotimi Abraham Black Sunday
Brandon Taylor Real Life
Bryan Washington Memorial
2022 Hala Alyan The Arsonists’ City Shortlist [1][15]
Myriam J. A. Chancy What Storm, What Thunder
Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise
Kirstin Valdez Quade The Five Wounds
Dawnie Walton The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Eric Nguyen Things We Lost To The Water Longlist [16]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois
Jakob Guanzon Abundance
Jason Mott Hell of a Book
Kaitlyn Greenidge Libertie
Karen Tucker Bewilderness
Linda Rui Feng Swimming Back to Trout River
Nawaaz Ahmed Radiant Fugitives
Peter Ho Davies A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Richard Powers Bewilderment
Tahmima Alam The Startup Wife

References
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  13. Allende, Isabel (2021-02-18). "Awards: Aspen Words Finalists". Shelf Awareness. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
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