PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1981) Winner
Joan Silber
ジョーン・シルバー
Jōn Shirubā
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1945 （Millburn, New Jersey）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Millburn, New Jersey → New York City
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, short story writer
- Active Years
- 1980-2021
- Affiliations
- Sarah Lawrence College, New York University
- Nominations
- 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist (Fools), 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (The Size of the World), 2004 Story Prize finalist (Ideas of Heaven), 2004 National Book Award finalist (Ideas of Heaven)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Lawrence College | — | — | — | — | United States |
| New York University | — | — | M.A. | — | United States |
Sarah Lawrence College
Country:
United States
New York University
Degree:
M.A.
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | Improvement | Fiction | PEN/Faulkner Foundation | winner |
| 2017 | National Book Critics Circle Award | Improvement | Fiction | National Book Critics Circle | winner |
| 2018 | PEN/Malamud Award | — | Excellence in the Short Story | PEN | winner |
| 1981 | Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award | Household Words | — | Hemingway Foundation/PEN | winner |
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
2018
Work:
Improvement
Category:
Fiction
Organization:
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Result:
winner
National Book Critics Circle Award
2017
Work:
Improvement
Category:
Fiction
Organization:
National Book Critics Circle
Result:
winner
PEN/Malamud Award
2018
Category:
Excellence in the Short Story
Organization:
PEN
Result:
winner
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
1981
Work:
Household Words
Organization:
Hemingway Foundation/PEN
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
The Story Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 1 (2004) Nominee
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 38 (2018) Winner
PEN/Malamud Award (PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award)
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
Improvement
2017 novelA novel about family connections and life's improvements.
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Secrets of Happiness
2021 novelFools
2013 short story collectionBibliography
- Household Words (1980)
- In the City (1987)
- Lucky Us (2001)
- Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (2004)
- In My Other Life (2000)
- The Size of the World (2008)
- Improvement (2017)
- Secrets of Happiness (2021)
- The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes (2009)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- linked storiesenigmatic narratives
- Recurring Motifs
- secrets of happinesssize of the world
Legacy
American novelist and short story writer who won the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award and 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award. Selected for O. Henry Prize six times.
Trivia
- Selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories six times—in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2021.
- Appeared in Best American Short Stories 2015.
- Won The Pushcart Prize.