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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, Green Card holders or permanent residents.[1][2] The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Judges read citations for each of the finalists' works at the presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."[1] The award was first given in 1981.[3]
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Fiction |
| Sponsored by | PEN/Faulkner Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Website | penfaulkner |
Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner Award following the controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN America voted for a boycott on the grounds that the award had become too commercial.[3][4]
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| Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chloe Aridjis | Sea Monsters | [34] |
| Yiyun Li | Where Reasons End | [35] | |
| Peter Rock | The Night Swimmers | ||
| Maurice Carlos Ruffin | We Cast a Shadow | ||
| Ocean Vuong | On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | ||
| 2021 | Deesha Philyaw | The Secret Lives of Church Ladies | [36][37] |
| Matthew Salesses | Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear | [38] | |
| Rufi Thorpe | The Knockout Queen | ||
| Robin Wasserman | Mother Daughter Widow Wife | ||
| Steve Wiegenstein | Scattered Lights | ||
| 2022 | Rabih Alameddine | The Wrong End of the Telescope | [39][40][41][42] |
| Nawaaz Ahmed | Radiant Fugitives | [43] | |
| Carolyn Ferrell | Dear Miss Metropolitan | ||
| Imbolo Mbue | How Beautiful We Were | ||
| Carolina de Robertis | The President and the Frog | ||
| 2023 | Yiyun Li | The Book of Goose | [44][45] |
| Jonathan Escoffery | If I Survive You | [44] | |
| Laura Warrell | Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm | ||
| Dionne Irving | The Islands | ||
| Kathryn Harlan | Fruiting Bodies: Stories | ||
| 2024 | Claire Jimenez | What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez | [46] |
| Jamel Brinkley | Witness | [44] | |
| Henry Hoke | Open Throat | ||
| Alice McDermott | Absolution | ||
| Colin Winnette | Users |
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