PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction
The PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction was founded in 1980. It is named for the international writer's organization, PEN, and William Faulkner. It is a literature award. Publishers submit books published the previous year. Authors must be American citizens. The award is presented at a ceremony held each March in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Here are the 2010 Nominees:
| Sherman Alexie ... winner! | War Dances | Grove Press | | Barbara Kingsolver | The Lacuna | Harper | | Lorraine M. Lopez | Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories | BkMk Press | | Lorrie Moore | A Gate At The Stairs | Knopf | | Colson Whitehead | Sag Harbor | Doubleday |
Here is the list of winners from 1981 to the present: | Year | Author | Book | | 2010 | Sherman Alexie | War Dances | 2009 | Joseph O'Neill | Netherland | | 2008 | Kate Christensen | The Great Man | | 2007 | Philip Roth | Everyman | | 2006 | E.L. Doctorow | The March | | 2005 | Ha Jin | War Trash | | 2004 | John Updike | The Early Stories | | 2003 | Sabina Murray | The Caprices | | 2002 | Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | | 2001 | Philip Roth | The Human Stain | | 2000 | Ha Jin | Waiting | | 1999 | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | | 1998 | Rafi Zabor | The Bear Comes Home | | 1997 | Gina Berriault | Women in Their Beds | | 1996 | Richard Ford | Independence Day | | 1995 | David Guterson | Snow Falling on Cedars | | 1994 | Philip Roth | Operation Shylock | | 1993 | E. Annie Proulx | Postcards | | 1992 | Don DeLillo | Mao II | | 1991 | John Edgar Wideman | Philadelphia Fire | | 1990 | E.L. Doctorow | Billy Bathgate | | 1989 | James Salter | Dusk | | 1988 | T. Coraghessan Boyle | World's End | | 1987 | Richard Wiley | Soldiers in Hiding | | 1986 | Peter Taylor | The Old Forest | | 1985 | Tobias Wolff | The Barracks Thief | | 1984 | John Edgar Wideman | Sent for You Yesterday | | 1983 | Toby Olson | Seaview | | 1982 | David Bradley | The Chaneysville Incident | | 1981 | Walter Abish | How German Is It |
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