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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)

Edition 42 (2022)

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Winners

5 people

A novel about family, memory, and identity that uses humor and melancholy to explore migration, language, and the relationship between self and others.

A novel about family, memory, and identity that uses humor a…

368 pages
migration and diasporafamily and memoryidentitylanguage
Nawaaz Ahmed Nominee

A family novel about three generations of a Muslim Indian family confronting estrangement, reunion, and the pressures of love and faith.

A family novel about three generations of a Muslim Indian fa…

384 pages
familymigrationreligiongender
Carolyn Ferrell Nominee

A novel about the kidnapping and aftermath faced by three young women, using fragments and documents to probe trauma, memory, and community indifference.

A novel about the kidnapping and aftermath faced by three young women.

419 pages
traumamemoryviolencesociety
Imbolo Mbue Nominee

A novel about a fictional African village confronting an outside extraction company, tracing environmental destruction, power, and generational conflict.

A village stands up to extraction and the damage it leaves behind.

384 pages
environmentresource extractionpoliticscommunitygenerational conflict

A fable-like novel in which a former president recalls imprisonment, a talking frog, and the politics of dignity and hope.

Imprisonment and a talking frog become an allegory of politics and hope.

224 pages
politicsdemocracyimprisonmenthopeallegory