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PEN/Faulkner Award

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PEN/Faulkner Award, American literary prize for fiction founded in 1980 by author Mary Lee Settle and organized by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Settle, then teaching at the University of Virginia, established the award in response to what she considered the commercialization of American literature prizes. Named for the writers organization International PEN, an American branch of which was then hosted at the university, and for Southern writer William Faulkner, who was once a writer in residence there, the PEN/Faulkner was conceptualized as a peer award, immune to the exhortations of the publishing industry and of popular taste. Juried by a panel ...(100 of 205 words)

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