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 43 (2023)
Winners
5 peopleA postwar French novel about a literary hoax devised by two 13-year-old girls, probing invention, truth, and the urge to tell stories.
Is truth outside story, or does story create truth?
A linked story collection about a Jamaican family in America, exploring immigrant experience, identity, poverty, and family tension.
The survival strategies of an immigrant family emerge between pain and humor.
A debut novel about unrequited love, jazz, and the women orbiting a trumpet player as they claim their own voices.
Around love and music, the women discover how to speak for themselves.
A novel spanning London, Panama, France, Jamaica, and Florida to trace the legacy of colonialism in the lives of Jamaican women.
Across many places, the reverberations of colonialism keep sounding.
An eerie debut collection that builds eight strange worlds where desire, transformation, and decay coexist.
In the midst of decay, desire and magic quietly sprout.