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The PEN/Faulkner Foundation celebrates readers, writers and literature in America through a variety of events and programs.

The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts an annual evening of readings in celebration of the year's winners and finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. In addition, the award judges, share citations written for each of the honorees. Following the readings, a buffet dinner is served in the Paster Reading Room.

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-The [http://www.penfaulkner.org/ PEN/Faulkner] Foundation brings together American writers and readers in a wide variety of programs to promote a love of literature.
+The [http://www.penfaulkner.org/ PEN/Faulkner] Foundation celebrates readers, writers and literature in America through a variety of events and programs.
-The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts the annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony. The event features the judges’ citations for each finalist’s book, the conferral of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a reading by each author. The Award Ceremony & Reading is followed by a buffet dinner held in the Folger's Old Reading Room.
+The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts an annual evening of readings in celebration of the year's winners and finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction. In addition, the award judges, share citations written for each of the honorees. Following the readings, a buffet dinner is served in the Paster Reading Room.
 ==Past seasons==
 ==[[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners and finalists]]==