PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Not to be confused with William Faulkner Prize.
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Awarded forFiction
Sponsored byPEN/Faulkner Foundation
CountryUnited States
Websitepenfaulkner.org

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 Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents.[1][2] The winner receives US$15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US$5000. Judges read citations for each of the finalists' works at the presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C.. The organization claims it to be "the largest peer-juried award in the country."[1] The award was first given in 1981.[3]

Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner Award following the controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN America voted for a boycott on the grounds that the award had become too commercial.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b "Award for Fiction". PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  2. ^ Stochl, Emily (November 2, 2020). "Citizenship is an Outdated Requirement for Literary Prize Eligibility". bookriot.com. Book Riot. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b Albin Krebs and Robert Thomas (April 18, 1981). "Notes on People; New York Writer Getting PEN/Faulkner Award". The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Matt Schudel (September 29, 2005). "Novelist Mary Lee Settle; Founded PEN/Faulkner Award". Washington Post.