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 45 (2025)
Winners
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At the edge of illness, the shapes of the body, care, and love come into focus.
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Jim's voice turns a canonical American novel inside out.
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From beneath the ordinary, ghostlike memories begin to sprout.
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