Congratulations to Seattle author Sherman Alexie, the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The announcement was made on March 23rd and honors Alexie for War Dances, a book of 23 stories, essays, and poems that examines themes of love, the hazards of love and betrayal, as well as Indian stereotypes, race relations and the corrupting nature of success. Also honored were finalists The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories by Lorraine M. Lopez, A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, and Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead.
The PEN/Faulkner Award is America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States. It was founded in 1980 by National Book Award winner Mary Lee Settle. Her goal was to establish a national prize that would recognize literary fiction of excellence, an award juried by writers for writers, free of commercial concerns. The prize was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to establish an award for younger writers, and PEN, the international writers’ organization.
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