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. The award judges-working fiction writers all--each read approximately 300 novels and short story collections to select a winner and four nomineers.
1. 2012 - The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
In The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka portrays a group of Japanese mail order brides in San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century.2. 2011 - The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg
“From the first to the last of her collected stories, Deborah Eisenberg demonstrates her sharp intelligence, literary inventiveness, and her clear understanding of human interconnectedness as it exists in isolation."
3. 2010 - War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's short stories intermingle with his poetry in this collection that explores, through the filter of Alexie's Native American heritage, the lives and challenges of the common man.
