2009 PEN / Faulkner Awards
Joseph O'Neill, author of NETHERLAND, has been selected as the winner of this year's PEN / Faulkner Award for fiction, which celebrates the best works of fiction published within the last calendar year. Chosen from over 300 submissions, O'Neill --- along with four finalists --- will be honored at a ceremony to be held in May, at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. The winner will receive a $15,000 cash prize, and the finalists will be given $5,000 each, making the PEN /Faulkner the largest peer-juried award in the country.
The four finalists are:
MS. HEMPEL CHRONICLES by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
A PERSON OF INTEREST by Susan Choi
LUSH LIFE by Richard Price
SERENA by Ron Rash
The PEN / Faulkner Foundation was founded in 1980 by the international writers' organization PEN, and was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers. For more information on the Award and foundation, please visit http://www.penfaulkner.org/
2008 PEN/Faulkner Award
Kate Christensen has been selected as the winner of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner
Award for Fiction. Her novel, THE GREAT MAN (Doubleday) was chosen from
nearly 350 titles by a panel of judges, and she will be awarded a cash prize
of $15,000.
In addition, four finalists were also named, each to receive $5,000.
They are:
THE MAYTREES by Annie Dillard
THE INDIAN CLERK by David Leavitt
THE GATEWAY by T. M. McNally
CHEMISTRY AND OTHER STORIES by Ron Rash
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation established the award in 1980 and is the largest
peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States. Previous winners
include Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, and Philip Roth.
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