Young Lions Fiction Award

The Young Lions Fiction Award is an annual US literary prize of $10,000, awarded to a writer who is 35 years old or younger for a novel or collection of short stories.{{Cite web|title=2020 Young Lions Fiction Award|url=https://donate.nypl.org/event/2020-young-lions-fiction-award/e258957?c_src=YLFAXXT_QVCN|access-date=2021-07-15|website=donate.nypl.org}}{{Cite web|title=Catherine Lacey '10 Wins 2021 NYPL Young Lions Award|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/news/catherine-lacey-10-wins-2021-nypl-young-lions-award|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Columbia - School of the Arts|language=en}} The award was established in 2001 by Ethan Hawke, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Rick Moody, Hannah McFarland, and the New York Public Library. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members (a New York Public Library membership aimed at people in their 20s and 30s{{Cite web|title=Young Lions|url=https://www.nypl.org/support/membership/young-lions|access-date=2021-07-15|website=The New York Public Library}}), writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of judges selects the winner.{{Cite web|date=2020-05-19|title=The NYPL has announced the 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists.|url=https://lithub.com/the-nypl-has-announced-the-2020-young-lions-fiction-award-finalists/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US}}

Recipients

class="wikitable sortable" \|+Past winners and finalists{{Cite web \|title=Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists \|url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award/list-winners-finalists \|access-date=2021-07-15 \|website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web \|title=Announcing the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists \|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/04/09/announcing-2021-young-lions-fiction-award-finalists \|access-date=2021-07-15 \|website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web \|last=Itzkoff \|first=Dave \|date=2009-03-18 \|title=Literary Honors (and Nominees) Galore \|url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/literary-honors-and-nominees-galore/ \|access-date=2021-07-16 \|website=ArtsBeat \|language=en-US}}{{Cite web \|author=The Editors \|date=2019-06-14 \|title=What Was that Noise Inside the New York Public Library? \|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/parties/g28035606/young-lions-fiction-awards-2019/ \|access-date=2021-07-16 \|website=Town & Country \|language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine \|date=2009-03-17 \|title=A Night with the Young Lions \|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-night-with-the-young-lions \|magazine=The New Yorker \|language=en-US \|access-date=2021-07-16}} !Year !Winner !Finalists !Judges
2001 \|Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves{{Cite web\|date=2001-05-01\|title=The Young Lions\|url=https://www.salon.com/2001/05/01/young_lions/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Salon\|language=en}} \| David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl Myla Goldberg, Bee Season Heidi Julavits, The Mineral Palace Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng \|Michael Chabon, A.M. Homes, Francine Prose
2002 \|Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days{{Cite web\|title=Colson Whitehead Biography - eNotes.com\|url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/colson-whitehead\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=eNotes\|language=en}} \| David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park Peter Orner, Esther Stories Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint \|Andrea Barrett, Mark Danielweski, Jonathan Lethem
2003 \|Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector; Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated{{Cite web\|title=New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winners\|url=https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/74-new-york-public-library-young-lions-fiction-award\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=www.goodreads.com}} \| Adam Johnson, Emporium Ben Marcus, Notable American Women Peter Rock, The Ambidextrist \|Joyce Carol Oates, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead
2004 \|Monique Truong, The Book of Salt{{Cite web\|last=BookBrowse\|title=Monique Truong author biography\|url=https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/881/monique-truong\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=BookBrowse.com\|language=en}} \| Jordan Ellenberg, The Grasshopper King Susan Choi, American Woman Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House Maile Meloy, Liars and Saints \|Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maureen Howard
2005 \|Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli \| Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine is Sleeping Stephen Elliott, Happy Baby Aaron Gwyn, Dog on the Cross \|Siri Hustvedt, Colum McCann, Monique Truong
2006 \|Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation{{Cite web\|title=SuperSummary\|url=https://www.supersummary.com/beasts-of-no-nation/summary/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=SuperSummary\|language=en}} \| Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners Ander Monson, Other Electricities Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor \|Rick Moody, Edmund White, Andrew Sean Greer
2007 \|Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov{{Cite web\|title=Olga Grushin : The Dream Life of Sukhanov : Book Review\|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/world/grushin.htm\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=mostlyfiction.com}} \| Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead Tony D'Souza, Whiteman Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves \|Kathryn Harrison, Jeff Talarigo, Uzodinma Iweala
2008 \|Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead{{Cite web\|title=Ron Currie, Jr. : God is Dead : Book Review\|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/humor/currie.html\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=mostlyfiction.com}} \| Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken In America Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World \|Olga Grushin, Han Ong, Helen Schulman
2009 \|Salvatore Scibona, The End{{Cite web\|title=Books — Salvatore Scibona\|url=https://www.salvatorescibona.com/books\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Salvatore Scibona\|language=en-US}} \| Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances Sana Krasikov, One More Year Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey \|André Aciman, Lore Segal, Ron Currie, Jr.
2010 \|Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned \| Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection Katie Kitamura, The Longshot C.E. Morgan, All the Living Philipp Meyer, American Rust \|Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Salvatore Scibona
2011 \|Adam Levin, The Instructions{{Cite web\|title=Adam Levin, novelist\|url=https://www.adamlevinadamlevin.com/bio\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Adam Levin\|language=en-US}} \| John Brandon, Citrus County Patricia Engel, Vida Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil \|Maile Chapman, Andrew Sean Greer, Kelly Link
2012 \|Karen Russell, Swamplandia!{{Cite web\|title=Bio\|url=https://karenrussellauthor.com/about-karen-russell/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Karen Russell\|language=en-US}} \| Teju Cole, Open City Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones \|Álvaro Enrique, A.M. Homes, Adam Levin
2013 \|Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn{{Cite web\|title=Claire Vaye Watkins\|url=https://granta.com/contributor/claire-vaye-watkins-2/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Granta\|language=en-US}} \| Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds \|Karen Russell, John Wray, Peter Nathaniel Malae
2014 \|Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters \| Matt Bell, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water \|Téa Obreht, Colm Tóibín, Claire Vaye Watkins
2015 \|Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans{{Cite web\|title=ABOUT {{!}} THE UNAMERICANS\|url=https://mollyantopol.com/about/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=mollyantopol.com}} \| Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun Catherine Lacey, Nobody is Ever Missing Andrew Ladd, What Ends Ben Lerner, 10:04 \|Ayana Mathis, Rebecca Mead, Paul Yoon
2016 \|Amelia Gray, Gutshot{{Cite web\|title=Writer Amelia Gray Wins 2016 Young Lions Fiction Award for Gutshot\|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-10-2016/writer-amelia-gray-wins-2016-young-lions-fiction-award-gutshot\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=The New York Public Library}} \| Angela Flournoy, The Turner House Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas \|Molly Antopol, Joseph O'Neill, Alejandro Zambra
2017 \|Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs{{Cite web\|title=Karan Mahajan Wins The New York Public Library's 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award for The Association of Small Bombs\|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-2-2017/karan-mahajan-wins-new-york-public-librarys-2017-young-lions-fiction\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=www.nypl.org}}{{Cite web\|title=THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS\|url=https://www.karan-mahajan.com/the-association-of-small-bombs\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=karan-mahajan\|language=en}} \| Clare Beams, We Show What We Have Learned Brit Bennett, The Mothers Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman \|Amelia Gray, Susan Minot, Salvatore Scibon
2018 \|Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky{{Cite web\|date=2018-06-08\|title=The New York Public Library Celebrates the Young Lions Fiction Award With a Summer Party\|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/young-lions-fiction-award-2018\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Vogue\|language=en-US}} \| Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida Emily Ruskovich, Idaho Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart \|Carys Davies, Lynn Lobash, Karan Mahajan
2019 \|Ling Ma, Severance{{Cite web\|date=2019-06-14\|title=Ling Ma Wins the 2019 Young Lions Fiction Award (aka the Ethan Hawke one)\|url=https://lithub.com/ling-ma-wins-the-2019-young-lions-fiction-award-aka-the-ethan-hawke-one/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Literary Hub\|language=en-US}} \| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black Nick Drnaso, Sabrina Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel \|Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Marisa Silvers
2020 \|Bryan Washington, Lot{{Cite web\|title=Bryan Washington Wins The New York Public Library's 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award\|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/september-17-2020/bryan-washington-wins-new-york-public-librarys-2020-young\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web\|title=NYPL 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists Announced\|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=2728\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=PublishersWeekly.com\|language=en}} \| Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies \|Ethan Hawke, Mitchell Jackson, Ling Ma
2021 \|Catherine Lacey, Pew{{Cite web\|title=Catherine Lacey Wins Young Lions Fiction Award\|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/catherine-lacey-wins-young-lions-fiction-award/\|access-date=2021-07-15\|website=Kirkus Reviews\|language=en}} \| Meng Jin, Little Gods Hilary Leichter, Temporary Brandon Taylor, Real Life C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold \|Hernan Diaz, Emma Straub, Yahdon Israel
2022 \|{{Sortname\|first=Kalani\|last=Pickhart}}, I Will Die in a Foreign Land{{Cite web \|last= \|first= \|date=2022-06-21 \|title=Awards: NYPL Young Lions Fiction Winner \|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4258 \|access-date=2022-06-24 \|website=Shelf Awareness}} \| Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck Alexandra Kleeman, Something Under the Sun Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat \|Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey
2023 \|Zain Khalid, Brother Alive{{cite news \|date= \|title=Young Lions Fiction Award. \|work=The New York Public Library \|url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award#winner \|access-date=21 June 2023}} \| Fatimah Asghar, When We Were Sisters Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation Reyes Ramirez, The Book of Wanderers David Sanchez, All Day is a Long Time \|Jessamine Chan, Claire Luchette, and Kalani Pickhart
2024 \|E.J. Koh, The Liberators {{Cite web \|title=Announcing the Winner of the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award \|url=https://m.nypl.org/blog/2024/06/13/announcing-winner-2024-young-lions-fiction-award \|access-date=2025-03-16 \|website=The New York Public Library \|language=en}} \| Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All-Stars Monica Brashears, House of Cotton Eskor David Johnson, Pay As You Go C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey {{Cite web \|title=Announcing the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists \|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/04/18/announcing-2024-young-lions-fiction-award-finalists \|access-date=2025-03-16 \|website=The New York Public Library \|language=en}} \|A. M. Homes, Caoilinn Hughes, and, Zain Khalid

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|+Past winners and finalists{{Cite web |title=Young Lions Award List of Winners and Finalists |url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award/list-winners-finalists |access-date=2021-07-15 |website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2021 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/04/09/announcing-2021-young-lions-fiction-award-finalists |access-date=2021-07-15 |website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web |last=Itzkoff |first=Dave |date=2009-03-18 |title=Literary Honors (and Nominees) Galore |url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/literary-honors-and-nominees-galore/ |access-date=2021-07-16 |website=ArtsBeat |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |author=The Editors |date=2019-06-14 |title=What Was that Noise Inside the New York Public Library? |url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/parties/g28035606/young-lions-fiction-awards-2019/ |access-date=2021-07-16 |website=Town & Country |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |date=2009-03-17 |title=A Night with the Young Lions |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-night-with-the-young-lions |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2021-07-16}}

!Year

!Winner

!Finalists

!Judges

2001

|Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves{{Cite web|date=2001-05-01|title=The Young Lions|url=https://www.salon.com/2001/05/01/young_lions/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Salon|language=en}}

David Ebershoff, The Danish Girl
Myla Goldberg, Bee Season
Heidi Julavits, The Mineral Palace
Akhil Sharma, An Obedient Father
Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng

|Michael Chabon, A.M. Homes, Francine Prose

2002

|Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days{{Cite web|title=Colson Whitehead Biography - eNotes.com|url=https://www.enotes.com/topics/colson-whitehead|access-date=2021-07-15|website=eNotes|language=en}}

David Czuchlewski, The Muse Asylum
Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park
Peter Orner, Esther Stories
Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

|Andrea Barrett, Mark Danielweski, Jonathan Lethem

2003

|Anthony Doerr, The Shell Collector; Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated{{Cite web|title=New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Winners|url=https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/74-new-york-public-library-young-lions-fiction-award|access-date=2021-07-15|website=www.goodreads.com}}

|Joyce Carol Oates, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead

2004

|Monique Truong, The Book of Salt{{Cite web|last=BookBrowse|title=Monique Truong author biography|url=https://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm/author_number/881/monique-truong|access-date=2021-07-15|website=BookBrowse.com|language=en}}

Jordan Ellenberg, The Grasshopper King
Susan Choi, American Woman
Lara Vapnyar, There Are Jews in My House
Maile Meloy, Liars and Saints

|Anthony Doerr, Jonathan Safran Foer, Maureen Howard

2005

|Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine is Sleeping
Stephen Elliott, Happy Baby
Aaron Gwyn, Dog on the Cross

|Siri Hustvedt, Colum McCann, Monique Truong

2006

|Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation{{Cite web|title=SuperSummary|url=https://www.supersummary.com/beasts-of-no-nation/summary/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=SuperSummary|language=en}}

Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Sightseeing
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
Ander Monson, Other Electricities
Eric Puchner, Music Through the Floor

|Rick Moody, Edmund White, Andrew Sean Greer

2007

|Olga Grushin, The Dream Life of Sukhanov{{Cite web|title=Olga Grushin : The Dream Life of Sukhanov : Book Review|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/world/grushin.htm|access-date=2021-07-15|website=mostlyfiction.com}}

Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital
Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
Tony D'Souza, Whiteman
Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

|Kathryn Harrison, Jeff Talarigo, Uzodinma Iweala

2008

|Ron Currie, Jr., God Is Dead{{Cite web|title=Ron Currie, Jr. : God is Dead : Book Review|url=http://mostlyfiction.com/humor/currie.html|access-date=2021-07-15|website=mostlyfiction.com}}

Ellen Litman, The Last Chicken In America
Peter Nathaniel Malae, Teach the Free Man
Dinaw Mengestu, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Emily Mitchell, The Last Summer of the World

|Olga Grushin, Han Ong, Helen Schulman

2009

|Salvatore Scibona, The End{{Cite web|title=Books — Salvatore Scibona|url=https://www.salvatorescibona.com/books|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Salvatore Scibona|language=en-US}}

Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City
Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances
Sana Krasikov, One More Year
Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey

|André Aciman, Lore Segal, Ron Currie, Jr.

2010

|Wells Tower, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
Katie Kitamura, The Longshot
C.E. Morgan, All the Living
Philipp Meyer, American Rust

|Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, Salvatore Scibona

2011

|Adam Levin, The Instructions{{Cite web|title=Adam Levin, novelist|url=https://www.adamlevinadamlevin.com/bio|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Adam Levin|language=en-US}}

John Brandon, Citrus County
Patricia Engel, Vida Suzanne
Rivecca, Death Is Not an Option
Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil

|Maile Chapman, Andrew Sean Greer, Kelly Link

2012

|Karen Russell, Swamplandia!{{Cite web|title=Bio|url=https://karenrussellauthor.com/about-karen-russell/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Karen Russell|language=en-US}}

Teju Cole, Open City
Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno
Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

|Álvaro Enrique, A.M. Homes, Adam Levin

2013

|Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn{{Cite web|title=Claire Vaye Watkins|url=https://granta.com/contributor/claire-vaye-watkins-2/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Granta|language=en-US}}

Ramona Ausubel, No One Is Here Except All of Us
Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages
Katie Kitamura, Gone to the Forest
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

|Karen Russell, John Wray, Peter Nathaniel Malae

2014

|Paul Yoon, Snow Hunters

Matt Bell, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
Jennifer duBois, Cartwheel
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water

|Téa Obreht, Colm Tóibín, Claire Vaye Watkins

2015

|Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans{{Cite web|title=ABOUT {{!}} THE UNAMERICANS|url=https://mollyantopol.com/about/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=mollyantopol.com}}

Jesse Ball, Silence Once Begun
Catherine Lacey, Nobody is Ever Missing
Andrew Ladd, What Ends
Ben Lerner, 10:04

|Ayana Mathis, Rebecca Mead, Paul Yoon

2016

|Amelia Gray, Gutshot{{Cite web|title=Writer Amelia Gray Wins 2016 Young Lions Fiction Award for Gutshot|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-10-2016/writer-amelia-gray-wins-2016-young-lions-fiction-award-gutshot|access-date=2021-07-15|website=The New York Public Library}}

Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
Alexandra Kleeman, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
Helen Phillips, The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas

|Molly Antopol, Joseph O'Neill, Alejandro Zambra

2017

|Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs{{Cite web|title=Karan Mahajan Wins The New York Public Library's 2017 Young Lions Fiction Award for The Association of Small Bombs|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/june-2-2017/karan-mahajan-wins-new-york-public-librarys-2017-young-lions-fiction|access-date=2021-07-15|website=www.nypl.org}}{{Cite web|title=THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS|url=https://www.karan-mahajan.com/the-association-of-small-bombs|access-date=2021-07-15|website=karan-mahajan|language=en}}

Clare Beams, We Show What We Have Learned
Brit Bennett, The Mothers
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun
Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman

|Amelia Gray, Susan Minot, Salvatore Scibon

2018

|Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky{{Cite web|date=2018-06-08|title=The New York Public Library Celebrates the Young Lions Fiction Award With a Summer Party|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/young-lions-fiction-award-2018|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Vogue|language=en-US}}

Venita Blackburn, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes
Gabe Habash, Stephen Florida
Emily Ruskovich, Idaho
Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart

|Carys Davies, Lynn Lobash, Karan Mahajan

2019

|Ling Ma, Severance{{Cite web|date=2019-06-14|title=Ling Ma Wins the 2019 Young Lions Fiction Award (aka the Ethan Hawke one)|url=https://lithub.com/ling-ma-wins-the-2019-young-lions-fiction-award-aka-the-ethan-hawke-one/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US}}

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel

|Lesley Nneka Arimah, Tayari Jones, Marisa Silvers

2020

|Bryan Washington, Lot{{Cite web|title=Bryan Washington Wins The New York Public Library's 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/september-17-2020/bryan-washington-wins-new-york-public-librarys-2020-young|access-date=2021-07-15|website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web|title=NYPL 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists Announced|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=2728|access-date=2021-07-15|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en}}

Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay
Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth
Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies

|Ethan Hawke, Mitchell Jackson, Ling Ma

2021

|Catherine Lacey, Pew{{Cite web|title=Catherine Lacey Wins Young Lions Fiction Award|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/catherine-lacey-wins-young-lions-fiction-award/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}

Meng Jin, Little Gods
Hilary Leichter, Temporary
Brandon Taylor, Real Life
C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

|Hernan Diaz, Emma Straub, Yahdon Israel

2022

|{{Sortname|first=Kalani|last=Pickhart}}, I Will Die in a Foreign Land{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-06-21 |title=Awards: NYPL Young Lions Fiction Winner |url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4258 |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}

Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck
Alexandra Kleeman, Something Under the Sun
Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat

|Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey

2023

|Zain Khalid, Brother Alive{{cite news |date= |title=Young Lions Fiction Award. |work=The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/awards/young-lions-fiction-award#winner |access-date=21 June 2023}}

Fatimah Asghar, When We Were Sisters
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation
Reyes Ramirez, The Book of Wanderers
David Sanchez, All Day is a Long Time

|Jessamine Chan, Claire Luchette, and Kalani Pickhart

2024

|E.J. Koh, The Liberators {{Cite web |title=Announcing the Winner of the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award |url=https://m.nypl.org/blog/2024/06/13/announcing-winner-2024-young-lions-fiction-award |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=The New York Public Library |language=en}}

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All-Stars
Monica Brashears, House of Cotton
Eskor David Johnson, Pay As You Go
C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey {{Cite web |title=Announcing the 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/04/18/announcing-2024-young-lions-fiction-award-finalists |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=The New York Public Library |language=en}}

|A. M. Homes, Caoilinn Hughes, and, Zain Khalid

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Category:American literary awards

Category:Awards established in 2001

Category:Awards with age limits