Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library » Jennifer Jones http://tscpl.org Your place. Stories you want, information you need, connections you seek. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:18:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Deborah Eisenberg wins prestigious PEN/Faulkner literary fiction award http://tscpl.org/books-movies-music/deborah-eisenberg-wins-prestigious-penfaulkner-literary-fiction-award/ http://tscpl.org/books-movies-music/deborah-eisenberg-wins-prestigious-penfaulkner-literary-fiction-award/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:25:38 +0000 Jennifer Jones http://www.tscpl.org/?p=4203 Pan/Faulkner winner Deborah EisenbergDeborah Eisenberg’s The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg has been selected as the winner of the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The judges considered approximately 320 novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2010 calendar year.

The honored book, The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, brings together four volumes of Eisenberg’s work: Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, and Twilight of the Superheroes, which was a PEN/Faulkner Finalist in 2007. Eisenberg’s stories have long been admired for their exceptional language and nuanced evocation of thought and emotion. 

The PEN/Faulkner Award is America’s largest peer juried prize for fiction in the United States. 

The four finalists for 2011 are  

 Read more about the PEN/Faulkner Award here.

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