The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction is one of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, first awarded in 1991 and named in honour of Art Seidenbaum, the newspaper's former book editor who had earlier founded the prizes in 1980 and died in 1990.
Past Winners
- 1991 - Pangs of Love, David Wong Louie
- 1992 - High Cotton, Darryl Pinckney
- 1993 - Love , Paul Kafka
- 1994 - The Year of the Frog, Martin M. Šimecka
- 1995 - American Studies, Mark Merlis
- 1996 - The Smell of Apples, Mark Behr
- 1997 - Don't Erase Me, Carolyn Ferrell
- 1998 - Kalimantaan, C.S. Godshalk
- 1999 - Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout
- 2000 - The Romantics, Pankaj Mishra
- 2001 - The Dark Room, Rachel Seiffert
- 2002 - Prague, Arthur Phillips
- 2003 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
- 2004 - Harbor, Lorraine Adams
- 2005 - Beasts of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
- 2006 - White Ghost Girls, Alice Greenway