PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the author of the best American work of fiction that year. The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four

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runners-up receive US$5000. The foundation brings the winner and runners-up

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to Washington, DC to read from their works at the Great Hall of the

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Folger Shakespeare Library.

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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." It is affiliated with the international writers' organization PEN.

Related Topics:
William Faulkner - 1949 - Nobel Prize - PEN

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The award was first given in 1981.

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