O. Henry Ödülü

O. Henry Ödülü (İngilizce: The O. Henry Award), öykü dalında Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde her sene verilen ödüldür. Ödülün ismi Amerikalı hikâye yazarı O. Henry'den gelir.

Ayrıca, her sene ABD ve Kanada'da çıkan edebiyat dergilerinde basılmış en iyi yirmi İngilizce öykünün derlendiği The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories adında bir kitap derlemesi de vardır.

Tarihi

Ödül ilk kez 1919 yılında verildi. Ödül için gerekli sermayeyi karşıladı. 2012'den itibaren The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'in editörünün seçtiği yirmi öykü üç jüri üyesi tarafından değerlendiriliyor. Jüri üyeleri yazarın ya da öykünün yayımlandığı yayınevini bilmeden sadece eseri değerlendiriyorlar.

Şu anda serinin editörü 'dır. Önceki editörler ise (1919–32), (1933–40), Herschel Brickell (1941–51), (1954–59), Mary Stegner (1960), (1961–66), William Abrahams (1967–96) ve (1997-2002) idi. 1952, 1953 ve 2004 yıllarında derleme yayımlanmadı.

Ödül kazananlar

2012	: "Kindness" (A Public Space) Alice Munro: "Corrie" (The New Yorker)
2011	: "Sunshine" : "Something You Can't Live Without" : "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You"
2010	: "A Spoiled Man" (The New Yorker) : "Oh, Death" () : "The Woman of the House" (The New Yorker)
2009	: "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" () Junot Díaz: "Wildwood" (The New Yorker)
2008	: "Touch" () Alice Munro: "What Do You Want To Know For?" () : "Folie a Deux" (The New Yorker)
2007	: "Galveston Bay, 1826" () : "The Room" (The New Yorker)
2006	Edward P. Jones: "Old Boys, Old Girls" (The New Yorker) : "Window" () Alice Munro: "Passion" (The New Yorker)
2005	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: "Refuge in London" () : "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" (The New Yorker) : "Mudlavia" in (The Atlantic Monthly)
2004	Ödül verilmedi
2003	Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams" in (The Paris Review) A. S. Byatt: "The Thing in The Forest" (The New Yorker)
2002	: "The Ceiling" (McSweeney's)
2001	: "The Deep" (The Malahat Review)
2000	: "Weight" ()
1999	: "A Nurse's Story" (The Gettysburg Review)
1998	: "People Like That Are the Only People Here" (The New Yorker)
1997	: "City Life" ()
1996	Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit" (The New Yorker)
1995	: "The Women Come and Go" ()
1994	: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1993	: "The Pugilist at Rest" (The New Yorker)
1992	: "Puttermesser Paired" (The New Yorker)
1991	John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse" (The New Yorker)
1990	: "The Eleventh Edition" (TriQuarterly)
1989	: "Peacocks" ()
1988	Raymond Carver: "Errand" (The New Yorker)
1987	: "Fleur" (Esquire) : "The Children's Wing"
1986	Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits" (Esquire)
1985	: "Hot Ice" (Antaeus) Jane Smiley: "Lily" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1984	: "Rosa" (The New Yorker) Gordon Lish: "For Jeromé—with Love and Kisses" ("The Antioch Review")
1983	Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing" ()
1982	: "Facing Front" (Epoch)
1981	: "The Shawl" (The New Yorker)
1980	Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish" (The New Yorker)
1979	: "Getting Serious" (The Sewanee Review) : "The Passion of Marco Z" ()
1978	Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode" (The New Yorker)
1977	: "A Long Story Short" (The New Yorker) : "Last Courtesies" (Harper's Magazine)
1976	: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft" (Esquire)
1975	: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode" (The New Yorker) : "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)” (Esquire)
1974	: "Brownstone” (The New Yorker)
1973	Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead" ()
1972	: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie" (The New Yorker)
1971	: "Twin Bed Bridge" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1970	: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles" (The New Yorker)
1969	Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1968	Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators" (The New Yorker)
1967	Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1966	John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess" (The New Yorker)
1965	Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation" (The Sewanee Review)
1964	John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cytherain" (The New Yorker)
1963	: "The Road Out of Axotle" (Esquire) Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (New World Writing)
1962	Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1961	: "Tell Me a Riddle" (New World Writing)
1960	: "The Ledge" (The Hudson Review)
1959	Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" ()
1958	Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1957	Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf" (The Kenyon Review)
1956	John Cheever: "The Country Husband" (The New Yorker)
1955	Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo" (The New Yorker)
1954	: "The Indian Feather" (The Sewanee Review)
1951	: "The Hunters" (Epoch)
1950	: "The Blue-Winged Teal" (Harper's Magazine)
1949	William Faulkner: "A Courtship" (The Sewanee Review)
1948	Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1947	: "The White Circle" (Harper's Magazine)
1946	: "Bird Song" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1945	: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter" ()
1944	: "Walking Wounded" (The New Yorker)
1943	Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back" (The Atlantic Monthly)
1942	Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net" (Harper's Magazine)
1941	: "Defeat" (The New Yorker)
1940	: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing" (The Saturday Evening Post)
1939	William Faulkner: "Barn Burning" (Harper's Magazine)
1938	: "The Happiest Man on Earth" (Harper's Magazine)
1937	: "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (The Saturday Evening Post)
1936	James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger" (The Saturday Evening Post)
1935	: "The White Horses of Vienna" (Harper's Magazine)
1934	: "No More Trouble for Jedwick" (Esquire)
1933	: "Gal Young Un" (Harper's Magazine)
1932	: "An End to Dreams" ()
1931	: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself" (Pictorial Review)
1930	W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up" (Harper's Magazine) : "Neither Jew nor Greek" (The Century Magazine)
1929	Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde" (Bookman Magazine)
1928	: "The Parrot" ()
1927	: "Child of God" (Harper's Magazine)
1926	: "Bubbles" (Harper's Magazine)
1925	: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess” in Redbook, May 1925
1924	: "The Spring Flight" (McCall's)
1923	: "Prelude" (Harper's Magazine)
1922	: "Snake Doctor" Cosmopolitan
1921	: "The Heart of Little Shikara” ()
1920	: "Each in His Generation ()
1919	: "England to America" (The Atlantic Monthly)

Ayrıca bakınız

• The Best American Short Stories

Kaynakça

1. ^ Kunitz, Stanley J. (1942). Twentieth Century Authors. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company. 

Dış bağlantılar

• O. Henry Öykü ödülleri7 Eylül 2014 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde ., resmi sitesi
• 1919–1999 yılları arasındaki kazananlar listesi24 Mart 2015 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde .