PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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 American citizens.[1] The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up to Washington, D.C. to read from their works at the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The organization claims to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."[1]
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings, "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." Mary Lee Settle was also one of the founders after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award.[2] It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.
The award was first given in 1980.[3]
[edit] Award winners
- 2011 Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
- 2010 Sherman Alexie, War Dances
- 2009 Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
- 2008 Kate Christensen, The Great Man
- 2007 Philip Roth, Everyman
- 2006 E.L. Doctorow, The March
- 2005 Ha Jin, War Trash
- 2004 John Updike, The Early Stories: 1953–1975
- 2003 Sabina Murray, The Caprices
- 2002 Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
- 2001 Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- 2000 Ha Jin, Waiting
- 1999 Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- 1998 Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
- 1997 Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
- 1996 Richard Ford, Independence Day
- 1995 David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
- 1994 Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
- 1993 E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
- 1992 Don DeLillo, Mao II
- 1991 John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
- 1990 E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
- 1989 James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories
- 1988 T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
- 1987 Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
- 1986 Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
- 1985 Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
- 1984 John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
- 1983 Toby Olson, Seaview
- 1982 David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
- 1981 Walter Abish, How German Is It
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Award for Fiction". PEN/Faulkner Foundation. http://www.penfaulkner.org/award_for_fiction. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ Matt Schudel (September 29, 2005). "Novelist Mary Lee Settle; Founded PEN/Faulkner Award". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR2005092802519.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries.
- ^ http://www.penfaulkner.org/about
