The Center for Fiction · award year

The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2011

The 2011 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize went to Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam. 7 books made the shortlist.

Winner

  1. Lambsource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Caribou Islandsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Daughters of the Revolutionsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Shardssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The History of Historysource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Sweet Relief of Missing Childrensource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Touchsource (opens in a new tab)

About the The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Winner, shortlist and longlist from The Center for Fiction's per-year First Novel Prize pages (book-recs/<year>-first-novel-prize). The live site blocks automated requests, so pages were read from web.archive.org snapshots of those official URLs. Year is the prize year: debuts published that calendar year, winner announced each December. Longlists appear on the Center's pages from 2013 on; 2006-2012 list winner and shortlist only. The prize was called the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize (2006-2009) and the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize (2010-2014). Author-name typos on the pages (Hines, Gradeon, Kristin Valdez Quade, Forouton) are corrected.

Organization: The Center for Fiction. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

Shares the most books with