PEN/Faulkner Award
The PEN/Faulkner Award is a literary prize for fiction that is given every year by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D. C. The prize tries to honor books that help people to understand each other and to live together in peace. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation believes that "fiction creates empathy within and among communities and advances civil discourse."[1]
The award began in 1983. Writer Mary Lee Settle wanted to begin "the largest annual peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States." She named the award for International PEN and for William Faulkner who helped young writers with his own Nobel Prize money.[2]
References
- ↑ "About Us | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation". www.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
- ↑ "Our History | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation". www.penfaulkner.org. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
