PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction

 Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation each year recognizes the best published works of fiction by contemporary American writers. Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers’ organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honour their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States. The author of the winning book receives $15,000 and the shortlisted authors receive $5000 each.

The award judges, who are themselves writers of fiction, each read more than 250 novels and short story collections published during the calendar year before selecting five outstanding books.

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