Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• Name — Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction • Country — United States • Year — 1991 • Status — Active The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, established in 1991, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize awarded to authors' debut books of fiction. It is named for the Los Angeles Times' critic Art Seidenbaum, who was also an author and editor. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction winners and finalists • Year — Author — Title — Result — Ref. • 1991 — David Wong — Pangs of Love — Winner • Louis — Wartime Lies — Finalist • Sortname|Louis Edwards — Ten Seconds • Sortname|Nico Ricci — The Book Of Saints • Whitney — How To Make An American Quilt • 1992 — Darryl — High Cotton — Winner • Sortname|Jane Shapiro — After Moondog — Finalist • Linda Svendsen — Marine Life • Thulani — 1959 • Wally — She's Come Undone • 1993 — sortname|Paul Kafka — Love — Winner • Amy — Come To Me — Finalist • Judy — Mourning Doves • Laura — Like Water For Chocolate • Rita — Mother Rocket • 1994 — Martin Milan Šimečka — The Year of the Frog — Winner • Alain — On Love — Finalist • Graciela — In Search Of Bernabé • Jose — The Indian Chronicles • Sandra — A Place Where The Sea Remembers • 1995 — Mark — American Studies — Winner • A. J. Verdelle — The Good Negresse — Finalist • Andrew — A Stone Boat • Charles D'Ambrosio — The Point • Mukul Kesavan — Looking Through The Glass • 1996 — Mark — The Smell of Apples — Winner • Mark — The Veracruz Blues — Finalist • Sortname|Daniel Akst — St. Burl's Obituary • Sortname|Jose Raul Bernardo — The Secret Of The Bulls • Sortname|Judith Farr — I Never Came To You In White • John — The Debt To Pleasure • Eoin — Resurrection Man • Jane — I Was Amelia Earhart • 1997 — Carolyn — Don't Erase Me: Stories — Winner • Suzanne — A Crime In The Neighborhood — Finalist • Michelle — Round Rock • Tara — A Child Out Of Alcatraz • Arundhati — The God Of Small Things • 1998 — C. S. — Kalimantaan — Winner • Lan Samantha Chang — Hunger: A Novella and Stories — Finalist • Samantha Gillison — The Undiscovered Country • Nicholas Papandreou — A Crowded Heart • Bart Schneider — Blue Bossa • 1999 — Elizabeth — Amy and Isabelle — Winner • Galaxy — By the Shore — Finalist • Nathan — For the Relief of Unbearable Urges • Jhumpa — Interpreter Of Maladies • Jenny — The Last Things • 2000 — Pankaj — The Romantics — Winner • Helen DeWitt — The Last Samurai — Finalist • Matthew Klam — Sam the Cat and other stories • Akhil Sharma — An Obedient Father • Zadie Smith — White Teeth • 2001 — Rachel — The Dark Room — Winner • Manil — The Death of Vishnu — Finalist • Nuala — My Dream Of You • Nani Power — Crawling At Night • John Wray — The Right Hand Of Sleep • 2002 — Arthur — Prague — Winner • Jay Basu — The Stars Can Wait — Finalist • Jonathan Safran Foer — Everything Is Illuminated • Nicole Krauss — Man Walks Into A Room • Hari Kunzru — The Impressionist • 2003 — Mark — The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Winner • Monica Ali — Brick Lane — Finalist • David Marshall Chan — Goblin Fruit:Stories • John Murray — A Few Short Notes On Tropical Butterflies: Stories • Lara Vapnyar — There Are Jews In My House • 2004 — Lorraine — Harbor — Winner • Pete Duval — Rear View — Finalist • David Bezmogis — Natasha and other stories • Susan Fletcher — Eve Green • Lisa Glatt — A Girl Becomes A Comma Like That • 2005 — Uzodinma — Beasts of No Nation — Winner • Kirstin Allio — Garner — Finalist • Karen Fisher — A Sudden Country • Olga Grushin — The Dream Life Of Sukhanov • Marlon James — John Crow's Devil • 2006 — Alice Greenway — White Ghost Girls — Winner • Jennifer Gilmore — Golden Country — Finalist • Lisa Fugard — Skinner’s Drift • Tony D'Souza — Whiteman • Janis Cooke Newman — Mary • 2007 — Dinaw — The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears — Winner • Ellen — The Last Chicken in America — Finalist • Antonia — Skylark Farm • Pamela — The Understory • Rebecca — Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money • 2008 — Zoë — Finding Nouf — Winner • Roma — Mosquito — Finalist • Uwem Akpan — Say You're One Of Them • Sadie — The Outcast • David — The Story of Edgar Sawtelle • 2009 — Philipp — American Rust — Winner • Daniyal — In Other Rooms, Other Wonders — Finalist • Paul — Tinkers • Petina — An Elegy For Easterly • Wells — Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned • 2010 — Peter — The House of Tomorrow — Winner • Christine — Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry — Finalist • Michael — The More I Owe You • Tatjana — The Lotus Eaters • Leslie — The Gin Closet • 2011 — Ismet — Shards — Winner • Ben — Leaving the Atocha Station — Finalist • Eleanor — Ten Thousand Saints • Chad — The Art Of Fielding • James — The Arriviste • 2012 — Maggie — Seating Arrangements — Winner • David — Fobbit — Finalist • Kevin P. — The Natural Order Of Things • Lydia Netzer — Shine Shine Shine • Robin — Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore • 2013 — NoViolet — We Need New Names — Winner • Jamie — I Want To Show You More — Finalist • Jeff — Mira Corpora • Fiona — The Night Guest • Ethan — The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories • 2014 — Valeria with Christina (trans.) — Faces in the Crowd — Winner • Eimear — A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing — Finalist • Diane — Man V. Nature: Stories • David James — The Heaven of Animals: Stories • John — Wolf in White Van • 2015 — Chigozie — The Fishermen — Winner • Sarah — Binary Star — Finalist • Ben — Against The Country • Sara — Girl At War • Andrew — The Miracle Girl • 2016 — Nathan — The Nix — Winner • Sara — Spill Simmer Falter Wither — Finalist • Mark — Against The Country • Idra — Ways To Disappear • Rebecca — The Bed Moved • 2017 — Jenny — Sour Heart — Winner • Rachel — Goodbye, Vitamin — Finalist • Carmen Maria — Her Body and Other Parties • Gabriel — My Absolute Darling • Elif — The Idiot • 2018 — Nafissa — Heads of the Colored People — Winner • Lisa — Asymmetry — Finalist • Katya — The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish • R. O. — The Incendiaries • Tommy — There There • 2019 — Namwali — The Old Drift — Winner • De'Shawn Charles Winslow — In West Mills — Finalist • Sarah Elaine — Marilou Is Everywhere • Maria — Optic Nerve • Lila — Say Say Say • 2020 — Deesha — The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — Winner • Shruti — A House is a Body: Stories — Finalist • Meng — Little Gods • Douglas — Shuggie Bain • Maisy — These Ghosts Are Family • 2021 — Jackie — Brood — Winner • Natasha — Assembly — Finalist • Thomas — The Recent East • Jocelyn Nicole — My Monticello: Fiction • Benjamín with Adrian Nathan West (trans.) — When We Cease to Understand the World • 2022 — Aamina — The Return of Faraz Ali: a novel — Winner • Maayan — Love — Finalist • Sidik — Stories from the Tenants Downstairs • Oscar — Calling for a Blanket Dance • Morgan — Manywhere: Stories • 2023 — Shannon — Company: Stories — Winner • Stephen — The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa: A Novel — Finalist • Sheena — I'm a Fan: A Novel • James Frankie — Idlewild: A Novel • Ghassan — Dearborn • 2024 — Jiaming — Cinema Love — Winner • Pemi — Ghostroots: Stories — Finalist • Joseph Earl — God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer • Jessica Elisheva — Olive Days • Julian — What We Tried to Bury Grows Here • 2025 — Justin Haynes — Ibis: A Novel — Winner • Andy Anderegg — Plum — Finalist • Krystelle Bamford — Idle Grounds: A Novel • Addie E. Citchens — Dominion: A Novel • Saou Ichikawa — Hunchback: A Novel