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The '''[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists|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. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." | The '''[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists|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. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country." | ||
''' | '''2006 - Ha Jin, ''War Trash''''' | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 21 July 2021
This event took place on May 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."
2006 - Ha Jin, War Trash
Finalists
Jerome Charyn, The Green Lantern
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War