Recipients

• 2025

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Fiction

  Anne Enright Ireland

  Sigrid Nunez United States

  Drama

  Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini United Kingdom

  Roy Williams United Kingdom

  Nonfiction

  Rana Dasgupta United Kingdom

  Patricia J. Williams United States

  Poetry

  Anthony V. Capildeo Trinidad and Tobago / Scotland

  Tongo Eisen-Martin United States

• 2024

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Hanif Abdurraqib United States

  Christina Sharpe Canada / United States

  Drama

  Christopher Chen United States

  Sonya Kelly Ireland

  Poetry

  Jen Hadfield Canada / United Kingdom

  m. nourbeSe philip Canada / Trinidad and Tobago

  Fiction

  Deirdre Madden Ireland

  Kathryn Scanlan United States

• 2023

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Darran Anderson Ireland / United Kingdom

  Susan Williams United Kingdom

  Fiction

  Percival Everett United States

  Ling Ma United States

  Poetry

  Alexis Pauline Gumbs United States

  dg nanouk okpik Iñupiaq / Inuit

  Drama

  Jasmine Lee-Jones United Kingdom

  Dominique Morisseau United States

• 2022

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Fiction

  Tsitsi Dangarembga Zimbabwe

  Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu Zimbabwe

  Drama

  Sharon Bridgforth United States

  Winsome Pinnock United Kingdom

  Nonfiction

  Emmanuel Iduma Nigeria

  Margo Jefferson United States

  Poetry

  Zaffar Kunial United Kingdom

  Wong May Ireland / Singapore / China

• 2021

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Fiction

  Dionne Brand Canada / Trinidad and Tobago

  Renee Gladman United States

  Nonfiction

  Kate Briggs United Kingdom / Netherlands

  Vivian Gornick United States

  Drama

  Nathan Alan Davis United States

  Michael R. Jackson United States

  Poetry

  Canisia Lubrin Canada / Saint Lucia

  Natalie Scenters-Zapico United States

• 2020

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Anne Boyer United States

  Maria Tumarkin Australia

  Drama

  Julia Cho United States

  Aleshea Harris United States

  Poetry

  Bhanu Kapil United Kingdom / United States

  Jonah Mixon-Webster United States

  Fiction

  Yiyun Li United States

  Namwali Serpell Zambia / United States

• 2019

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Rebecca Solnit United States

  Raghu Karnad India

  Poetry

  Ishion Hutchinson Jamaica

  Kwame Dawes Jamaica / Ghana / United States

  Drama

  Young Jean Lee United States

  Patricia Cornelius Australia

  Fiction

  David Chariandy Canada

  Danielle McLaughlin Ireland

• 2018

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Poetry

  Cathy Park Hong United States

  Lorna Goodison Jamaica / Canada

  Fiction

  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Uganda / United Kingdom

  John Keene United States

  Drama

  Lucas Hnath United States

  Suzan-Lori Parks United States

  Nonfiction

  Olivia Laing United Kingdom

  Sarah Bakewell United Kingdom

• 2017

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Fiction

  André Alexis Canada / Trinidad & Tobago

  Erna Brodber Jamaica

  Poetry

  Ali Cobby Eckermann Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal Australian

  Carolyn Forché United States

  Nonfiction

  Ashleigh Young New Zealand

  Maya Jasanoff United States

  Drama

  Ike Holter United States

  Marina Carr Ireland

• 2016

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Drama

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins United States

  Hannah Moscovitch Canada

  Abbie Spallen Ireland

  Fiction

  Tessa Hadley United Kingdom

  C. E. Morgan United States

  Jerry Pinto India

  Nonfiction

  Hilton Als United States

  Stanley Crouch United States

  Helen Garner Australia

• 2015

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Geoff Dyer United Kingdom

  John Jeremiah Sullivan United States

  Edmund de Waal United Kingdom

  Fiction

  Teju Cole Nigeria / United States

  Helon Habila Nigeria

  Ivan Vladislavić South Africa

  Drama

  Jackie Sibblies Drury United States

  Helen Edmundson United Kingdom

  debbie tucker green United Kingdom

• 2014

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Fiction

  Nadeem Aslam Pakistan / United Kingdom

  Jim Crace United Kingdom

  Aminatta Forna Sierra Leone / United Kingdom

  Nonfiction

  Pankaj Mishra India

  John Vaillant Canada / United States

  Drama

  Noëlle Janaczewska Australia

  Sam Holcroft United Kingdom

  Kia Corthron United States

• 2013

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Nonfiction

  Jeremy Scahill United States

  Jonny Steinberg South Africa

  Adina Hoffman United States

  Fiction

  Zoë Wicomb South Africa

  James Salter United States

  Tom McCarthy United Kingdom

  Drama

  Naomi Wallace United States

  Tarell Alvin McCraney United States

  Stephen Adly Guirgis United States