PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a prestigious American literary prize honoring outstanding works of fiction by living U.S. authors.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American literary award
literary award
alsoKnownAs PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
surface form: PEN/Faulkner Award
awardCategory novels
short story collections
awardFor outstanding works of fiction
awardType book award
country United States of America
surface form: United States
currency US dollar
surface form: United States dollar
eligibility living U.S. authors
works of fiction published in the United States
field contemporary fiction
literature
firstAwarded 1981
frequency annual
genre fiction
hasComponent finalist prizes
winner prize
headquartersOfOrganizer Washington, D.C.
inception 1980
languageOfWorksConsidered English
location Washington, D.C.
mediaTypeOfWorks e-books
printed books
motto Celebrating the best in American fiction
namedAfter PEN International
surface form: PEN (Poets, Essayists, Novelists)

William Faulkner
notableRecipient Ann Patchett
Don DeLillo
E. L. Doctorow
John Updike
Michael Chabon
Philip Roth
organizer PEN/Faulkner Foundation
partOf PEN America awards
presentedBy PEN/Faulkner Foundation
relatedAward PEN/Hemingway Award
surface form: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
relatedOrganization PEN America
scope national
selectionCriterion artistic merit
literary excellence
originality
selectionProcess judged by a panel of writers
sponsor PEN/Faulkner Foundation
status active
targetAudience readers of contemporary fiction
website https://www.penfaulkner.org

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this entity surface form: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist
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subject surface form: Philip Roth
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