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The PEN/Faulkner
Award for Fiction, administered by the Folger Shakespeare Library, was
established in 1980 by writers to honor their peers. The award is named
for William
Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young
writers, and PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists),
the international writers' organization. The award judges, who are themselves
writers of fiction, each read more than 250 novels and short story collections
published during the calendar year before selecting five outstanding books.
The author of the book designated the winner receives $15,000; each of
the other nominees receives $5,000.
This year's
award will be announced in later this spring.
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2002 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction |
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Year's Winner is... |
 Bel
Canto
by Ann
Patchett
-- a July/August
2001 Book Sense 76 Pick
Finalists:
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