Thursday, April 09, 2015

Atticus Lish wins PEN/Faulkner Award

April 7  - The Washington Post



Atticus Lish won the $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award on Tuesday for his first novel, “Preparation for the Next Life.”

In a statement released Tuesday morning, the judges praised Lish’s novel as a work of fiction that “scours and illuminates the vast, traumatized America that lives, works and loves outside the castle gates. The result is an incantation, a song of ourselves, a shout.”

“Preparation for the Next Life” is about an Iraq War vet who falls in love with a Chinese Muslim immigrant in New York.

The PEN/Faulkner prize — now in its 35th year — is known for its critical independence and its willingness to consider books by small publishers.
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