PEN/Faulkner
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.
Past seasons
2010s
- Tananarive Due, N.K. Jemisin, & Airea D. Matthews: What Was, What Is, and What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism (2019)
- The 38th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2018)
- PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story: Jhumpa Lahiri (2018)
- The 37th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Imbolo Mbue (2018)
- The Displaced: An Evening with Laila Lalami, Shobha Rao, & Luis Urrea (2017)
- Manuel Gonzales, Yona Harvey, and Gary Jackson; We Wear the Masks: Poetry and Fiction inspired by Comic Books (2017)
- Angela Flournoy, Marcus Guillory, & Margo Jefferson: Class in the Black Community (2017)
- Nathaniel Rich & Kate Walbert: Cli-Fi (2017)
- Roxane Gay & Morgan Parker: Urgently Human (2017)
- PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story: Joy Williams (2016)
- The Eudora Welty Lecture: Salman Rushdie (2016)
- The 28th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration (2016)
- The 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: James Hannaham (2016)
- Louise Erdrich (2016)
- A Tribute to Robert Stone (2016)
- Edna O'Brien (2016)
- Mitchell S. Jackson and Leslie Jamison: I Feel Your Pain (2016)
- Celeste Ng & John Wray: Not Waving But Drowning (2016)
- 2015 PEN/Malamud Award: Deborah Eisenberg (2015)
- Replacement Lives: An Evening with David Bezmozgis, Boris Fishman, and Lara Vapnyar (2015)
- SPARK: The 27th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration (2015)
- 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony: Atticus Lish (2015)
- Allan Gurganus and Elizabeth Strout: Where We Are From (2015)
- T.C. Boyle: All Things Animate, Beating in Unison (2015)
- Ruth Ozeki & Claire Vaye Watkins: The Imaginary Real (2015)
- The Legacy of Bernard Malamud: Edward P. Jones, Lorrie Moore, & Tobias Wolff (2014)
- James Carroll and Marilynn Robinson (2015)
- A Remembrance of Robert Stone (2015)
- In This Way Comes Morning: New Writing of the West African Diaspora: Okey Ndibe, Chinelo Okparanta, and Taiye Selasi (2014)
- The 26th Annual PEN/Faulkner Gala: “Danger” (2014)
- 34th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony and Dinner (2014)
- Amy Tan and Deborah Tannen: Two Lives in Language (2014)
- The Heart of Things Human: An Evening with Richard Ford, in Conversation with Ron Charles (2014)
- Survival Instincts: First-time Novelists on the Ties That Bind: Ayana Mathis & Justin Torres (2014)
- Whose Lift Is It, Anyway?: The Literary Biographer's Craft: Blake Bailey, Ruth Franklin, and D.T. Max (2014)
- PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story: George Saunders (2013)
- Blood Lines: the Literature of War Philip Caputo & Kevin Powers (2013
- The Human Comedy: Serious Humor in the American Novel: Tom Perrotta & Maria Semple (2013)
- 25th Annual PEN/Faulkner Gala – “Renewal” (2013)
- MK Asante & Lisa Page (2013)
- The 33rd Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony: Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013)
- Learning to Breathe: An Evening with Terry McMillan (2013)
- Geraldine Brooks, Julie Otsuka, & Dolen Perkins-Valdez (2013)
- Susan Richards Shreve & Nicole Idar (2013)
- William Kennedy & Thomas Mallon (2013)
- Chad Harbach & Karen Russell (2013)
- 2012 PEN/Malamud Award: James Salter (2012)
- Alan Cheuse & Alyson Foster (2012)
- Robert Stone and Lauren Groff (2012)
- Jeffrey Eugenides (2012)
- 2012 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Gala (2012)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Julie Otsuka (2012)
- Benjamin Percy and Dagoberto Gilb (2012)
- Gish Jen & Helen Simonson (2011)
- 2011 PEN/Malamud Award: Edith Pearlman (2011)
- Chris Adrian & Emma Donoghue (2011)
- R. Dwayne Betts, Ta-Nehisi Coates & E. Ethelbert Miller (2011)
- 2011 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Gala (2011)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Deborah Eisenberg (2011)
- Dorothy Allison & Ron Rash (2011)
- Joshua Ferris and Victor Lavalle (2011)
- Achy Obejas, Porochista Khakpour & Danzy Senna (2011)
- Myla Goldberg, Allegra Goodman & Monique Truong (2011)
- PEN/Malamud Award (2010)
- Samantha Hunt & Samantha Chang (2010)
- Colum McCann (2010)
- 2010 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Gala (2010)
- Richard Wilbur (2010)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Sherman Alexie (2010)
- W.S. Merwin (2010)
- Isabel Allende (2010)
- James Shapiro (2010)
- Vendela Vida & Heidi Julavits (2010)
- Ian McEwan (2010)
- Walter Mosley (2010)
- E.L. Doctorow & Ivy Meeropol (2010)
- Susan Orlean & George Saunders (2010)
2000s
- PEN Malamud Award (2009)
- Stacey D'Erasmo & Jonathan Lethem (2009)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Joseph O'Neill (2009)
- Calvin Trillin (2009)
- Chris Abani & lê thi diem thúy (2009)
- PEN Malamud Award (2008)
- The Undead: Toby Barlow, Max Brooks, and Grace Lee (2008)
- Russell Banks & Richard Russo (2008)
- PEN/Faulkner Gala 2008 (2008)
- Stephen Carter in Conversation with Walter Dellinger (2008)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: (2008)
- Frank McCourt & Alice McDermott (2008)
- The Three Kings: Stephen King, Tabitha King, & Owen King (2008)
- Edward P. Jones & Dinaw Mengetsu (2008)
- Azar Nafisi (2008)
- Thomas McGuane (2008)
- PEN Malamud Award (2007)
- Graphic Novels: Lynda Barry, Chris Ware, & Daniel Raeburn (2007)
- Cities at Night: Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, & Clarence Page (2007)
- PEN/Faulkner Gala 2007 (2007)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2007)
- Portrait of the Artist of a Young Woman: Jennifer Egan, Gail Godwin, Kate Lehrer, & Deborah Tannen (2007)
- An Evening with Shirley Hazzard (2007)
- Shakespeare Reimagined: Charles Baxter and Elizabeth Nunez (2007)
- New Voices in American Literature: Kuwana Haulsey, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, and Porter Shreve (2007)
- An Evening with E.L. Doctorow (2007)
- PEN Malamud Award: Adam Haslett and Tobias Wolff (2006)
- Nicholas Delbanco & Al Young (2006)
- Mary Lee Settle Memorial Reading with Robert Stone (2006)
- Luis Alberto Urrea & Ana Menéndez (2006)
- PEN/Faulkner Gala 2006 (2006)
- William Faulkner Birthday Reading, New Orleans Night: Andrei Codrescu, Richard Ford, and Susan Richards Shreve (2006)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2006)
- Larry Neal Award Ceremony (2006)
- Women in the World: Melissa Bank & Terry McMillan (2006)
- Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman (2006)
- The Exonerated: Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen (2006)
- A Tribute to Raymond Carver: Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, Jayne Anne Phillips, & Joy Williams (2006)
- Dream Me Home Safely: PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Reading (2006)
- Collaborative Evening at the National Museum of the American Indian: N. Scott Momaday & Debra Magpie Earling (2005)
- PEN Malamud Award: Lorrie Moore (2005)
- Joan Didion (2005)
- Mothers and Daughters: Amy Tan, Marita Golden, & Mary Gordon (2005)
- PEN/Faulkner Gala 2005 (2005)
- William Faulkner Birthday Reading: Bebe Moore Campbell (2005)