Prizes are awarded annually at the Spring Revel by the Editorial Committee of the Board of The Paris Review.

The Paris Review Hadada Award

The Hadada Award is presented each year to “a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature.” Previous recipients of the Hadada include John Ashbery, Joan Didion (shown above), Paula Fox, Norman Mailer, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton (posthumously), Barney Rosset, Philip Roth, Norman Rush, James Salter, Frederick Seidel, Robert Silvers, and William Styron.

The Plimpton Prize for Fiction

The Plimpton Prize for Fiction is an award of $10,000 given to a new voice published in The Paris Review. The prize is named for the Review’s longtime editor George Plimpton and reflects his commitment to discovering new writers of exceptional merit. Past recipients include April Ayers Lawson, Amie Barrodale, Jesse Ball, Emma Cline, Caitlin Horrocks, Atticus Lish, Alistair Morgan, Ottessa Moshfegh (shown above), and Benjamin Percy.

The Terry Southern Prize for Humor

The Paris Review recognizes humor, wit, and sprezzatura as important qualities of good writing. The Terry Southern Prize honors work appearing in the last year, either in the Paris Review or the Paris Review Daily, that best embodies those qualities. It is given in memory of our loyal contributor Terry Southern, known for his uproarious fiction and journalism and such screenplays as Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider. Shown above: Mark Leyner accepting the Terry Southern Prize in 2015.

Winners of The Paris Review Hadada

2022
Jamaica Kincaid
2021
N. Scott Momaday
2020
Richard Ford
2019
Deborah Eisenberg
2018
Joy Williams
2017
Richard Howard
2016
Lydia Davis
2015
Norman Rush
2014
Frederick Seidel
2013
Paula Fox
2012
Robert Silvers
2011
James Salter
2010
Philip Roth
2009
John Ashbery
2008
Peter Matthiessen
2007
Norman Mailer
2006
Joan Didion
2005
George Plimpton
2004
William Styron
2003
Barney Rosset

Winners of The Plimpton Prize for Fiction

2022
Chetna Maroo

Issue 238, for “Brothers and Sisters”
2021
Eloghosa Osunde

Issue 234, for “Good Boy”
2020
Jonathan Escoffery

Issue 229, for “Under the Ackee Tree”
2019
Kelli Jo Ford

Issue 227, for “Hybrid Vigor”
2018
Isabella Hammad

Issue 222, for “Mr. Can’aan”
2017
Alexia Arthurs

Issue 217, for “Bad Behavior”
2016
David Szalay

Issues 213 and 215, for “Youth” and “Lascia Amor e siegui Marte”
2015
Atticus Lish

Issue 210, for “Jimmy”
2014
Emma Cline

Issue 205, for “Marion”
2013
Ottessa Moshfegh

Issues 202 and 204, for “Disgust” and “Bettering Myself”
2012
Amie Barrodale

Issue 197, for “William Wei”
2011
April Ayers Lawson

Issue 194, for “Virgin”
2010
Caitlin Horrocks

Issue 188, for “At the Zoo”
2009
Alistair Morgan

Issue 185, for “Departure”
2008
Jesse Ball

Issue 183, for “The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr”
2007
Benjamin Percy

Issue 180, for “Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This”
2006
(none)
2005
(none)
2004
Malinda McCollum

Issue 171, for “The Fifth Wall”
2003
Yiyun Li

Issue 167, for “Immortality”
2002
Wells Tower

Issue 161, for “The Brown Coast”
2001
John Barlow

Issue 160, “Eating Mammals”
2000
Karl Iagnemma

Issue 157, for “On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction”
1999
Daniel Libman

Issue 150, “In the Belly of the Cat”
1998
Julie Orringer

Issue 149, “When She Is Old and I Am Famous”
1997
Martin McDonagh

Issue 142, “The Cripple of Inishmaan”
1996
Elizabeth Gilbert

Issue 141, “The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick”
1995
Lise Goett

Issue 133, “Three Poems”
1994
Vikram Chandra

Issue 130, “Dharma”
1993
Marcia Guthridge

Issue 128, “Bones”

Winners of The Terry Southern Prize for Humor

2020
Leigh Newman
2019
Benjamin Nugent
2018
David Sedaris
2017
Vanessa Davis
2016
Chris Bachelder
2015
Mark Leyner
2014
Ben Lerner
2013
J. D. Daniels
2012
Adam Wilson
2011
Elif Batuman

Winners of The Aga Khan Prize

2004
Annie Proulx

Issue 171, “The Wamsutter Wolf”
2003
Michael Chabon

Issue 166, for "The Final Solution"
2002
Denis Johnson

Issue 162, for “Train Dreams”
2001
Maile Meloy

Issue 158, “Aqua Boulevard”
2000
Marcel Moring

Issue 155, “East Bergholt”
1999
Robert Antoni

Issue 152, “My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head”
1998
Will Self

Issue 146, “Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys”
1997
David Foster Wallace

Issue 144, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6”
1996
Patricia Eakins,

Issue 140, “The Garden of Fishes”
1995
A. S. Byatt

Issue 133, “The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye”
1994
Rick Moody

Issue 131, “The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven”
1993
Charles D'Ambrosio

Issue 126, “Her Real Name”
1992
Joanna Scott

Issue 123, “A Borderline Case”
1991
Jeffrey Eugenides

Issue 117, “The Virgin Suicides”
1990
Larry Woiwode

Issue 114, “Summer Storms”
1989
John Banville

Issue 113, “The Book of Evidence”
1987
Ben Okri

Issue 105, “The Dream-Vendor's August”
1985
Michael Covino

Issue 94, “Monologue of the Movie Mogul”
1984
Norman Rush

Issue 93, “Instruments of Seduction”
1983
Charlie Smith

Issue 88, “Crystal River”
1982
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Issue 84, “Greasy Lake”
1979
Norman Lock

Issue 76, “The Love of Stanley Marvel & Claire Moon”
1978
Dallas Wiebe

Issue 73, “Night Flight to Stockholm”
1977
C. W. Gusewelle

Issue 70, “Horst Wessel”
1976
Bart Midwood

Issue 66, “John O'Neill versus the Crown”
1975
David Evanier

Issue 61, “Cancer of the Testicles”
1974
Lamar Herrin

Issue 59, “The Rio Loja Ringmaster”
1973
Paul West

Issue 57, “Tan Salaam”
1967
Christina Stead

Issue 40, “George”
1965
Jeremy Larner

Issue 33, “Oh, the Wonder!”
1962
Albert Guerard

Issue 28, “The Lusts & Gratification of Andrada”
1961
Thomas Whitbread

Issue 24, “The Rememberer”
1958
Philip Roth

Issue 19, “Epstein”
1956
Gina Berriault

Issue 12, “Around the Dear Ruin”
1956
John Langdon

Issue 12, “The Blue Serge Suit”
1956
Owen Dodson

Issue 12, “The Summer Fire” (2nd Prize)

Winners of The Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry

2004
Jeremy Glazler and Danielle Pieratti

Jeremy Glazier, Issue, 170, “Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger,” and Danielle Pieratti, Issue 170, Five Poems.
2003
Julie Sheehan

Issue 167, for “Brown-headed Cow Birds”
2002
Timothy Donnelly

Issue 164, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”
2001
Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Issue 160, “Circus Fire, 1944”
2000
Corey Marks

Issue 155, “Renunciation”
2000
Christopher Patton

Issue 157, “Broken Ground”
1999
J. D. McClatchy

Issue 152, “Tattoos”
1998
Neil Azevedo

Issue 148, “Caspar Hauser Songs”
1998
Sherod Santos

Issue 149, “Elegy for My Sister”
1997
John Drury

Issue 145, “Burning the Aspern Papers”
1996
Sarah Arvio

Issue 140, “Visits from the Seventh”
1996
John Voiklis

Issue 139, “The Princeling's Apology”
1995
Vijay Seshadri

Issue 137, “Lifeline”
1994
Marilyn Hacker

Issue 131, “Cancer Winter”
1994
Stewart James

Issue 132, “Vanessa”
1993
Stephen Yenser

Issue 129, “Blue Guide”
1992
Tony Sanders

Issue 126, “The Warning Track”
1991
Donald Hall

Issue 123, “Museum of Clear Ideas”
1990
Christopher Logue

Issue 117, “Kings”
1989
Jorie Graham

Issue 110, “Spring”
1988
David Lehman

Issue 106, “Mythologies”
1986
John Koethe

Issue 102, “Mistral”
1985
James Schuyler

Issue 96, “A Few Days”
1984
Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Issue 94, “Imaginary Prisons”
1984
Sharon Ben-Tov

Issue 93, “Carillon for Cambridge Women”
1982
Gerald Stern

Issue 83, “Father Guzman”
1981
Frank Bidart

Issue 80, “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky”

Winners of The John Train Humor Prize

1991
Dan Leone

Issue 125, “Spinach 1991”
1990
Robie Macauley

Issue 114, “Silence”; “Exile”; “Cunnning”
1990
Padgett Powell

Issue 115, “Mr. Irony”; “Mr. Irony Renounces Irony”
1989
Edna O'Brien

Issue 110, “Dramas”
1987
David Foster Wallace

Issue 106, “Little Expressionless Animals”
1985
Stephen Dixon

Issue 97, “Goodbye to Goodbye”
1984
T. Coraghessan Boyle

Issue 93, “The Hector Quesadilla Story”
1970
Paul Spike

Issue 49, “Specks Saga”
1968
Mordecai Richler

Issue 42, “A Liberal Education”
1966
Rosalyn Drexler

Issue 38, “Dear”
1964
Stanley Elkin

Issue 32, “The Great Sandusky”
1961
Hughes Rudd

Issue 26, “Miss Eulayla is the Sweetest Thang”
1961
Bowden Broadwater

Issue 25, “Ciao”
1959
Terry Southern

Issue 21, “Grand Guy Grand”

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Issue 238, for “Brothers and Sisters”

Issue 234, for “Good Boy”

Issue 229, for “Under the Ackee Tree”

Issue 227, for “Hybrid Vigor”

Issue 222, for “Mr. Can’aan”

Issue 217, for “Bad Behavior”

Issues 213 and 215, for “Youth” and “Lascia Amor e siegui Marte”

Issue 210, for “Jimmy”

Issue 205, for “Marion”

Issues 202 and 204, for “Disgust” and “Bettering Myself”

Issue 197, for “William Wei”

Issue 194, for “Virgin”

Issue 188, for “At the Zoo”

Issue 185, for “Departure”

Issue 183, for “The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr”

Issue 180, for “Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This”

Issue 171, for “The Fifth Wall”

Issue 167, for “Immortality”

Issue 161, for “The Brown Coast”

Issue 160, “Eating Mammals”

Issue 157, for “On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction”

Issue 150, “In the Belly of the Cat”

Issue 149, “When She Is Old and I Am Famous”

Issue 142, “The Cripple of Inishmaan”

Issue 141, “The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick”

Issue 133, “Three Poems”

Issue 130, “Dharma”

Issue 128, “Bones”

Issue 171, “The Wamsutter Wolf”

Issue 166, for "The Final Solution"

Issue 162, for “Train Dreams”

Issue 158, “Aqua Boulevard”

Issue 155, “East Bergholt”

Issue 152, “My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head”

Issue 146, “Tough Tough Toys for Tough Tough Boys”

Issue 144, “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6”

Issue 140, “The Garden of Fishes”

Issue 133, “The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye”

Issue 131, “The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven”

Issue 126, “Her Real Name”

Issue 123, “A Borderline Case”

Issue 117, “The Virgin Suicides”

Issue 114, “Summer Storms”

Issue 113, “The Book of Evidence”

Issue 105, “The Dream-Vendor's August”

Issue 94, “Monologue of the Movie Mogul”

Issue 93, “Instruments of Seduction”

Issue 88, “Crystal River”

Issue 84, “Greasy Lake”

Issue 76, “The Love of Stanley Marvel & Claire Moon”

Issue 73, “Night Flight to Stockholm”

Issue 70, “Horst Wessel”

Issue 66, “John O'Neill versus the Crown”

Issue 61, “Cancer of the Testicles”

Issue 59, “The Rio Loja Ringmaster”

Issue 57, “Tan Salaam”

Issue 40, “George”

Issue 33, “Oh, the Wonder!”

Issue 28, “The Lusts & Gratification of Andrada”

Issue 24, “The Rememberer”

Issue 19, “Epstein”

Issue 12, “Around the Dear Ruin”

Issue 12, “The Blue Serge Suit”

Issue 12, “The Summer Fire” (2nd Prize)

Jeremy Glazier, Issue, 170, “Conversations with the Sidereal Messenger,” and Danielle Pieratti, Issue 170, Five Poems.

Issue 167, for “Brown-headed Cow Birds”

Issue 164, “His Long Imprison'd Thought”

Issue 160, “Circus Fire, 1944”

Issue 155, “Renunciation”

Issue 157, “Broken Ground”

Issue 152, “Tattoos”

Issue 148, “Caspar Hauser Songs”

Issue 149, “Elegy for My Sister”

Issue 145, “Burning the Aspern Papers”

Issue 140, “Visits from the Seventh”

Issue 139, “The Princeling's Apology”

Issue 137, “Lifeline”

Issue 131, “Cancer Winter”

Issue 132, “Vanessa”