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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 44 (2024)

FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award

Winners

5 people

A Puerto Rican family searches for a missing sister, turning disappearance and family bonds into the novel's emotional core.

A search for a missing sister brings family memory back to the surface.

282 pages
family bondsdisappearancePuerto Rican culture
Jamel Brinkley Nominee

A story collection tracing how memory, witness, and human relationships shape one another.

The weight of seeing, remembering, and telling.

230 pages
witnessmemoryinterpersonal relationships
Henry Hoke Nominee

A queer mountain lion wanders the edges of Los Angeles, turning hunger, loneliness, and desire into a survival story.

A single animal voice illuminates urban loneliness and the hunger to live.

108 pages
queer lifesurvivaldisplacementnature
Alice McDermott Nominee

A family novel set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, examining conscience, responsibility, and the cost of moral compromise.

It looks closely at the guilt and choices of people on the war's margins.

369 pages
warconsciencefamily
Colin Winnette Nominee

A near-future novel in which startup culture, virtual reality, and family life begin to collapse into one another.

Virtual reality and family reality become increasingly hard to separate.

288 pages
technologyfamilystartup cultureirony