PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
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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 American citizens.[1] The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library 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.[2]
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner's generosity in using his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings to create the William Faulkner Foundation; among the charitable goals of the foundation was "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers." The foundation's first award for a "notable first novel," called the William Faulkner Foundation Award, was granted to John Knowles's A Separate Peace in 1961.
Mary Lee Settle was one of the founders of the PEN/Faulkner award after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN voted a boycott on the ground that they were too commercial.[2][3] It is affiliated with the writers' organization International PEN.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Award winners
• 1981 - Walter Abish, How German Is It
• 1982 - David Bradley, The Chaneysville Incident
• 1983 - Toby Olson, Seaview
• 1984 - John Edgar Wideman, Sent for You Yesterday
• 1985 - Tobias Wolff, The Barracks Thief
• 1986 - Peter Taylor, The Old Forest
• 1987 - Richard Wiley, Soldiers in Hiding
• 1988 - T. Coraghessan Boyle, World's End
• 1989 - James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories
• 1990 - E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate
• 1991 - John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
• 1992 - Don DeLillo, Mao II
• 1993 - E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
• 1994 - Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
• 1995 - David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
• 1996 - Richard Ford, Independence Day
• 1997 - Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds
• 1998 - Rafi Zabor, The Bear Comes Home
• 1999 - Michael Cunningham, The Hours
• 2000 - Ha Jin, Waiting
• 2001 - Philip Roth, The Human Stain
• 2002 - Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
• 2003 - Sabina Murray, The Caprices
• 2004 - John Updike, The Early Stories: 1953–1975
• 2005 - Ha Jin, War Trash
• 2006 - E.L. Doctorow, The March
• 2007 - Philip Roth, Everyman
• 2008 - Kate Christensen, The Great Man
• 2009 - Joseph O'Neill, Netherland
• 2010 - Sherman Alexie, War Dances
• 2011 - Deborah Eisenberg, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
• 2012 - Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
• 2013 - Benjamin AlireSáenz, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

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