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Named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers' organization, the PEN/Faulkner Award was founded by writers in 1980 to honor their peers, and is now the largest juried award for fiction in the United States. 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 book designated the winner earns $15,000 for its author; each of the others receives $5,000. All five authors read from their works and are honored at an award ceremony and celebration held at the Folger Library in May. 2002 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2001 The Human Stain by Philip Roth 2000 Waiting by Ha Jin 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor 1997 Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 1994 Operation Shylock by Philip Roth 1993 Postcards by E. Annie Proulx 1992 Mao II by Don DeLillo 1991 Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman 1990 Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow 1989 Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter 1988 World's End by T.C. Boyle 1987 Soldiers in Hiding by Richard Wiley 1986 The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor |
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