Joan Silber Wins the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- April 5, 2018
The author and finalists will be feted in Washington, DC, on Sat., May 5th.
Joan Silber’s Improvement has been selected as the winner of the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. This year's judges considered nearly 450 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. during 2017. As winner, Silber will receive a $15,000 prize. Each of the four finalists — Hernán Díaz (In the Distance), Samantha Hunt (The Dark Dark), Achy Obejas (The Tower of the Antilles), and Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing) — will receive $5,000.
In a ceremony that celebrates the winner as “first among equals,” all five authors will be honored during the 38th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, on Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $100 for the reading ceremony and formal reception, which will feature specialty cocktails and an hors d’oeuvre buffet. Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Folger Box Office at (202) 544-7077 or www.folger.edu/penfaul
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