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    Here are the finalists for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

    Katie Yee
    By 
    March 3, 2020, 2:34pm

    The PEN/Faulkner Award celebrates the best published works of fiction by American citizens. It is the largest peer-juried award in the country, with three writers being selected by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to act as jurors. Patricia Engel, Ru Freeman, and Porochista Khakpour made up this year’s panel. They have selected the following five finalists. Congratulations to all!

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    sea monsters

    Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters
    (Catapult)

    where reasons end

    Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End 
    (Random House)

    Peter Rock, The Night Swimmers
    (Soho Press)

    we cast a shadow

    Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow
    (One World)

    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press)

    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
    (Penguin Press)

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    The 40th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony will be held on May 4th at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C.

    Chloe Aridjis Maurice Carlos Ruffin May the fourth be with you Ocean Vuong Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Peter Rock Yiyun Li

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