{"id":7125,"date":"2012-03-26T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:02:40","slug":"2012-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/26\/2012-penfaulkner-award-for-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of this year&#8217;s PEN\/Faulkner was announced this morning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Buddha in the Attic<\/em><\/strong>, by Julie Otsuka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winner gets $15,000. I have this book on hand and have been meaning to read it since it was also a finalist for the National Book Award back in November. It&#8217;s short enough I just need to get to it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the other finalists, each of whom receive $5,000 (making it a good week for Don DeLillo and Steven Millhauser who also took home some money for The Story Prize).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russell Banks for <em>Lost Memory of Skin<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Don DeLillo for <em>The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Anita Desai for <em>The Artist of Disappearance<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Steven Millhauser for <em>We Others: New and Selected Stories<\/em> (my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of We Others\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/10\/01\/steven-millhauser-we-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the official press release, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penfaulkner.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/PF-Award-2012_Otsuka.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PEN\/Faulkner Award winner has been announced. <a 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