34th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony and Dinner (2014)
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On May 10, 2014 the Folger Shakespeare Library hosted an evening of readings in the Elizabethan Theatre in celebration of the 2014 winner and the finalists for America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In addition, the year's award judges, Madison Smartt Bell, Manuel Muñoz, and Achy Obejas, shared citations written for each of the honorees. Following the readings, a buffet dinner was served in the Paster Reading Room.
2014 winners and finalists
Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (winner)
- Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles (finalist)
- Percival Everett, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (finalist)
- Joan Silber, Fools (finalist)
- Valerie Trueblood, Search Party: Stories of Rescue (finalist)