The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans...
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number of programs, including its flagship PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, and a number of educational and public...
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (category American Book Award-winning works)
mother. It was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel is written...
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Yiyun Li (category Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners)
End, and the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Book of Goose. Her short story collection Wednesday's Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...
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T. C. Boyle (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
nineteen novels and more than 150 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988, for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate...
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unanimous acclaim. Her third novel, Sea Monsters (2019), was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2020. She is the eldest daughter of Mexican poet and...
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Ann Patchett (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other...
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Alice McDermott (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
National Book Award for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor...
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Hernan Diaz (writer) (category Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners)
was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He also received a Whiting Award. For his second novel...
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Deborah Eisenberg (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
and Letters, and in 2009 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She won the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Deborah...
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Iranian-American writer. She won the 2015 Whiting Award for Fiction and the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi was born in 1983...
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Tobias Wolff (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack...
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Independence Day (Ford novel) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
Day won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1996, becoming the first novel ever to win both awards in a single year. The novel follows...
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Mona Simpson (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and making the shortlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Off Keck Road (2000). She is the biological younger...
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Ha Jin (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (1996) Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1997) Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) National Book Award (1999) PEN/Faulkner Award (2000)...
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Joseph O'Neill (writer, born 1964) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
and non-fiction writer. O'Neill's novel Netherland was awarded the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Joseph...
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won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Li's initial inspiration for the novel...
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
novel won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Rosemary...
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Jennifer Egan (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America. After graduating...
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Percival Everett (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
for the 2023 National Book Critics award for fiction. Everett received a 2023 Windham Campbell Prize for fiction. In 2023 the film American Fiction was...
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Everyman (novel) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The...
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The March (novel) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award/Fiction (2005). The...
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Mary Lee Settle (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
won the 1978 National Book Award for her novel Blood Tie. She was a founder of the annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Settle was born in Charleston...
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Barbara Kingsolver (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
National Book Prize of South Africa and was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award. Her next novel, published in 2000, was Prodigal Summer...
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book won the 1967 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel, a predecessor of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Houghton Mifflin...
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Sherman Alexie (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Alexie was born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane, Washington...
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Amelia Gray (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
Gray has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and her television writing has been nominated for a WGA Award. The New York Times called...
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World's End (Boyle novel) (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
the Hudson River Valley. It was the winner of the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction. World's End by T. C. Boyle Hardcover – ISBN 0-670-81489-X...
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction-winning works)
for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and received The Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction....
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Michael Cunningham (category PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners)
screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is Professor...
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