- O. Henry-Preis
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Der O.-Henry-Preis ist ein jährlich vergebener Literaturpreis für englischsprachige Kurzgeschichten. Der Preis ist nach dem amerikanischen Schriftsteller O. Henry benannt und wird seit 1919 verliehen.
Preisträger - First Prize
- 2003 Denis Johnson: "Train Dreams", Antonia Susan Byatt: "The Thing in the Forest"
- 2002 Kevin Brockmeier: "The Ceiling"
- 2001 Mary Swan: "The Deep"
- 2000 John Edgar Wideman: "Weight"
- 1999 Peter Baida: "A Nurse's Story"
- 1998 Lorrie Moore: "People Like That Are the Only People Here"
- 1997 Mary Gordon: "City Life"
- 1996 Stephen King: "The Man in the Black Suit" (siehe Im Kabinett des Todes: Der Mann im schwarzen Anzug)
- 1995 Cornelia Nixon: "The Women Come and Go"
- 1994 Alison Baker: "Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight"
- 1993 Thom Jones: "The Pugilist at Rest"
- 1992 Cynthia Ozick: "Puttermesser Paired"
- 1991 John Updike: "A Sandstone Farmhouse"
- 1990 Leo E. Litwak: "The Eleventh Edition"
- 1989 Ernest J. Finney: "Peacocks"
- 1988 Raymond Carver: "Errand"
- 1987 Louise Erdrich Karen: "Fleur", Joyce Johnson : "The Children's Wing"
- 1986 Alice Walker: "Kindred Spirits"
- 1985 Stuart Dybek: "Hot Ice", Jane Smiley : "Lily"
- 1984 Cynthia Ozick: "Rosa"
- 1983 Raymond Carver: "A Small, Good Thing"
- 1982 Susan Kenney: "Facing Front"
- 1981 Cynthia Ozick: "The Shawl"
- 1980 Saul Bellow: "A Silver Dish"
- 1979 Gordon Weaver: "Getting Serious"
- 1978 Woody Allen: "The Kugelmass Episode"
- 1977 Shirley Hazzard: "A Long Story Short", Ella Leffland: "Last Courtesies"
- 1976 Harold Brodkey: "His Son in His Arms, in Light, Aloft"
- 1975 Harold Brodkey: "A Story in an Almost Classical Mode"
- 1973 Cynthia Ozick: "Usurpation (Other People's Stories)"
- 1974 Renata Adler: "Brownstone"
- 1973 Joyce Carol Oates: "The Dead"
- 1972 John Batki: "Strange-Dreaming Charlie, Cow-Eyed Charlie"
- 1971 Florence M Hecht: "Twin Bed Bridge"
- 1970 Robert Hemenway: "The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles"
- 1969 Bernard Malamud: "Man in the Drawer"
- 1968 Eudora Welty: "The Demonstrators"
- 1967 Joyce Carol Oates: "In the Region of Ice"
- 1966 John Updike: "The Bulgarian Poetess"
- 1965 Flannery O'Connor: "Revelation"
- 1964 John Cheever: "The Embarkment for Cythera"
- 1963 Flannery O'Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
- 1962 Katherine Anne Porter: "Holiday"
- 1961 Tillie Olson: "Tell Me a Riddle"
- 1960 Lawrence Sargent Hall: "The Ledge” in The Hudson Review, Winter, 1958-59
- 1959 Peter Taylor: "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” in The Kenyon Review
- 1958 Martha Gellhorn: "In Sickness as in Health” in The Atlantic Monthly
- 1957 Flannery O'Connor: "Greenleaf” in The Kenyon Review
- 1956 John Cheever: "The Country Husband” in The New Yorker
- 1955 Jean Stafford: "In the Zoo” in The New Yorker
- 1954 Thomas Mabry: "The Indian Feather"
- 1951 Harris Downey: "The Hunters"
- 1950 Wallace Stegner: "The Blue-Winged Teal"
- 1949 William Faulkner: "A Courtship"
- 1948 Truman Capote: "Shut a Final Door"
- 1947 John Bell Clayton: "The White Circle"
- 1946 John Mayo Goss: "Bird Song"
- 1945 Walter Van Tilburg Clark: "The Wind and the Snow of Winter"
- 1944 Irwin Shaw: "Walking Wounded"
- 1943 Eudora Welty: "Livvie is Back"
- 1942 Eudora Welty: "The Wide Net"
- 1941 Kay Boyle: "Defeat"
- 1940 Stephen Vincent Benét: "Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing"
- 1939 William Faulkner: "Barn Burning"
- 1938 Albert Maltz: "The Happiest Man on Earth"
- 1937 Stephen Vincent Benét: "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
- 1936 James Gould Cozzens: "Total Stranger"
- 1935 Kay Boyle: "The White Horses of Vienna"
- 1934 Louis Paul: "No More Trouble for Jedwick"
- 1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "Gal Young Un"
- 1932 Stephen Vincent Benét: "An End to Dreams"
- 1931 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Can't Cross Jordan by Myself"
- 1930 W. R. Burnett: "Dressing-Up"; William H. John: "Neither Jew nor Greek"
- 1929 Dorothy Parker: "Big Blonde"
- 1928 Walter Duranty: "The Parrot"
- 1927 Roarke Bradford: "Child of God"
- 1926 Wilbur Daniel Steele: "Bubbles"
- 1925 Julian Street: "Mr. Bisbee's Princess"
- 1924 Inez Haynes Irwin: "The Spring Flight"
- 1923 Edgar Valentine Smith: "Prelude"
- 1922 Irvin S. Cobb: "Snake Doctor"
- 1921 Edison Marshall: "The Heart of Little Shikara"
- 1920 Maxwell Struthers Burt: "Each in His Generation"
- 1919 Margaret Prescott Montague: "England to America"
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