The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors. The award was first given in 1988.

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

PEN/Malamud Award winners

Year	Awardee
2019	John Edgar Wideman
2018	Joan Silber and Amina Gautier
2017	Jhumpa Lahiri
2016	Joy Williams
2015	Deborah Eisenberg
2013	George Saunders