O. Henryjeva nagrada

Nagrada O. Henryja, izvirno The O. Henry Award, je edina vsakoletna nagrada, ki se jo podeljuje kratkim zgodbam izjemne vrednosti. Nagrada se imenuje po ameriškem mojstru te zvrsti proze, O. Henryju.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories je letna zbirka 20 najboljših kratkih zgodb v letu, objavljenih v ameriških in kanadskih revijah, napisanih v angleščini.

Nagrada se sicer imenuje 'The O. Henry Award', ne 'The O. Henry Prize', četudi se zbirka imenuje 'The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Tudi zbirka, izdana leta 1919, se je imenovala Prize Stories 1919: The O. Henry Memorial Awards.

Zgodovina

Nagrado so prvič podelili leta 1919, finančno jo podpira Society of Arts and Sciences. Od leta 2003 urednik nagrade izbere 20 kratkih zgodb, ki se tako že uvrstijo v zbirko. V poštev pridejo vse kratke zgodbe, napisane v angleščini in objavljene v ameriškem ali kanadskem občasniku. Vsako leto izberejo tri sodnike. Sodniki prejmejo 20 zgodb v rokopisu, brez podpisa avtorja ali publikacije, zavoljo večje objektivnosti. Vsak sodnik se samostojno odloči, katera zgodba se mu zdi, da izstopa. Sodnik nato napiše komentar ob zgodbi.

Cilj podeljevanja nagrade in izdajanja zbirke ostaja enak - utrditev umetnosti pisanja kratkih zgodb. Trenutna odgovorna urednica zbirke je Laura Furman.

Partnerstvo s PEN American Center

Leta 2009 je založnik zbirke The O. Henry Prize Stories, Anchor Books, napovedal združitev z društvom PEN American Center in preimenovanje zbirke v The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Urednica Laura Furman je v intervjuju za blog Vintage Books in Anchor Books dejala, da je sodelovanje s PEN-om »naravno partnerstvo.« 

Dobitniki

Spodaj so navedeni le favoriti sodnikov, za več informacij ali popoln seznam vsakoletnih dobitnikov obiščite uradno spletno stran The O. Henry Prize Stories.

2010	Daniyal Mueenuddin: A Spoiled Man v reviji The New Yorker James Lasdun: Oh, Death v reviji The Paris Review William Trevor: The Woman of the House v reviji The New Yorker
2009	Graham Joyce: An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen v reviji The Paris Review Junot Díaz: Wildwood v reviji The New Yorker
2008	Alexi Zentner: Touch v revijiTin House Alice Munro: What Do You Want To Know For? v reviji The American Scholar William Trevor: Folie a Deux v reviji The New Yorker
2007	Eddie Chuculate: Galveston Bay, 1826 v zborniku Manoa William Trevor: The Room v reviji The New Yorker
2006	Edward P. Jones: Old Boys, Old Girls v reviji The New Yorker Deborah Eisenberg: Window v reviji Tin House Alice Munro: Passion v reviji The New Yorker
2005	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Refuge in London v reviji Zoetrope Sherman Alexie: What You Pawn I Will Redeem v reviji The New Yorker Elizabeth Stuckey-French: Mudlavia v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
2004	Nagrada ni bila podeljena.
2003	Denis Johnson: Train Dreams v reviji The Paris Review A. S. Byatt: The Thing in The Forest v reviji The New Yorker
2002	Kevin Brockmeier: The Ceiling v zborniku McSweeney's
2001	Mary Swan: The Deep v reviji The Malahat Review
2000	John Edgar Wideman: Weight v zborniku The Callaloo Journal
1999	Peter Baida: A Nurse's Story v reviji The Gettysburg Review
1998	Lorrie Moore: People Like That Are the Only People Here v reviji The New Yorker
1997	Mary Gordon: City Life v reviji Ploughshares
1996	Stephen King: The Man in the Black Suit v reviji The New Yorker
1995	Cornelia Nixon: The Women Come and Go v reviji New England Review
1994	Alison Baker: Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1993	Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest v reviji The New Yorker
1992	Cynthia Ozick: Puttermesser Paired v reviji The New Yorker
1991	John Updike: A Sandstone Farmhouse v reviji The New Yorker
1990	Leo E. Litwak: The Eleventh Edition v reviji TriQuarterly
1989	Ernest J. Finney: Peacocks v reviji The Sewanee Review
1988	Raymond Carver: Errand v reviji The New Yorker
1987	Louise Erdrich: Fleur v reviji Esquire Joyce Johnson: The Children's Wing v reviji Harper's Magazine
1986	Alice Walker: Kindred Spirits v reviji Esquire, August 1985
1985	Stuart Dybek: Hot Ice v reviji Antaeus Jane Smiley: Lily v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1984	Cynthia Ozick: Rosa v reviji The New Yorker Gordon Lish: For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses v reviji The Antioch Review
1983	Raymond Carver: A Small, Good Thing v reviji Ploughshares
1982	Susan Kenney: Facing Front v reviji Epoch
1981	Cynthia Ozick: The Shawl v reviji The New Yorker
1980	Saul Bellow: A Silver Dish v reviji The New Yorker
1979	Gordon Weaver: Getting Serious v reviji The Sewanee Review Anne Leaton: The Passion of Marco Z v reviji Transatlantic Review
1978	Woody Allen: The Kugelmass Episode v reviji The New Yorker
1977	Shirley Hazzard: A Long Story Short v reviji The New Yorker Ella Leffland: Last Courtesies v reviji Harper's Magazine
1976	Harold Brodkey: His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft v reviji Esquire
1975	Harold Brodkey: A Story in an Almost Classical Mode v reviji The New Yorker Cynthia Ozick: Usurpation (Other People's Stories) v reviji Esquire
1974	Renata Adler: Brownstone v reviji The New Yorker
1973	Joyce Carol Oates: The Dead v reviji McCall's
1972	John Batki: Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie v reviji The New Yorker
1971	Florence M Hecht: Twin Bed Bridge v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1970	Robert Hemenway: The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles v reviji The New Yorker
1969	Bernard Malamud: Man in the Drawer v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1968	Eudora Welty: The Demonstrators v reviji The New Yorker
1967	Joyce Carol Oates: In the Region of Ice v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1966	John Updike: The Bulgarian Poetess v reviji The New Yorker
1965	Flannery O'Connor: Revelation v reviji The Sewanee Review
1964	John Cheever: The Embarkment for Cythera v reviji The New Yorker
1963	Terry Southern: The Road Out of Axotle v reviji Esquire Flannery O'Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge v reviji New World Writing
1962	Katherine Anne Porter: Holiday v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1961	Tillie Olsen: Tell Me a Riddle v reviji New World Writing
1960	Lawrence Sargent Hall: The Ledge v reviji The Hudson Review
1959	Peter Taylor: Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time v reviji The Kenyon Review
1958	Martha Gellhorn: In Sickness as in Health v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1957	Flannery O'Connor: Greenleaf v reviji The Kenyon Review
1956	John Cheever: The Country Husband v reviji The New Yorker
1955	Jean Stafford: In the Zoo v reviji The New Yorker
1954	Thomas Mabry: The Indian Feather v reviji The Sewanee Review
1951	Harris Downey: The Hunters v reviji Epoch
1950	Wallace Stegner: The Blue-Winged Teal v reviji Harper's Magazine
1949	William Faulkner: A Courtship v reviji The Sewanee Review
1948	Truman Capote: Shut a Final Door v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1947	John Bell Clayton: The White Circle v reviji Harper's Magazine
1946	John Mayo Goss: Bird Song v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1945	Walter Van Tilburg Clark: The Wind and the Snow of Winter v reviji The Yale Review
1944	Irwin Shaw: Walking Wounded v reviji The New Yorker
1943	Eudora Welty: Livvie is Back v reviji The Atlantic Monthly
1942	Eudora Welty: The Wide Net v reviji Harper's Magazine
1941	Kay Boyle: Defeat v reviji The New Yorker
1940	Stephen Vincent Benét: Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing v reviji The Saturday Evening Post
1939	William Faulkner: Barn Burning v reviji Harper's Magazine
1938	Albert Maltz: The Happiest Man on Earth v reviji Harper's Magazine
1937	Stephen Vincent Benét: The Devil and Daniel Webster v reviji The Saturday Evening Post
1936	James Gould Cozzens: Total Stranger v reviji The Saturday Evening Post
1935	Kay Boyle: The White Horses of Vienna v reviji Harper's Magazine
1934	Louis Paul: No More Trouble for Jedwick v reviji Esquire
1933	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Gal Young Un v reviji Harper's Magazine
1932	Stephen Vincent Benét: An End to Dreams v reviji Pictorial Review
1931	Wilbur Daniel Steele: Can't Cross Jordan by Myself v reviji Pictorial Review
1930	W.R. Burnett: Dressing-Up v reviji Harper's Magazine William H. John: Neither Jew nor Greek v reviji Century Magazine
1929	Dorothy Parker: Big Blonde v reviji Bookman Magazine
1928	Walter Duranty: The Parrot v reviji Redbook
1927	Roark Bradford: Child of God v reviji Harper's Magazine
1926	Wilbur Daniel Steele: Bubbles v reviji Harper's Magazine
1925	Julian Street: Mr. Bisbee's Princess v reviji Redbook
1924	Inez Haynes Irwin: The Spring Flight v reviji McCall's
1923	Edgar Valentine Smith: Prelude v reviji Harper's Magazine
1922	Irvin S. Cobb: Snake Doctor v reviji Cosmopolitan
1921	Edison Marshall: The Heart of Little Shikara v reviji Everybody's Magazine
1920	Maxwell Struthers Burt: Each in His Generation v reviji Scribner's Magazine
1919	Margaret Prescott Montague: England to America v reviji The Atlantic Monthly

Glej tudi

• The Best American Short Stories
• The Best American Short Stories 1996
• The Best American Short Stories 1998
• The Best American Short Stories 1999
• The Best American Short Stories 2002
• The Best American Short Stories 2003
• The Best American Short Stories 2004
• The Best American Short Stories 2005
• The Best American Short Stories 2006
• The Best American Short Stories 2007
• The Best American Short Stories 2008

Zunanje povezave

• Popoln seznam dobitnikov 1919-1999 (angleško)