Kate Christensen, The Great Man
Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man (Doubleday) has been selected as the winner of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The announcement was made March 12 by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Patricia Griffith and Robert Stone, Co-Chairmen.
The judges—Molly Giles, Victor LaValle, and Richard Bausch—considered close to 350 novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2007 calendar year. Submissions came from over 70 publishing houses, including small and academic presses. There is no fee for a publisher to submit a book.
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2008 FINALISTS
- Annie Dillard, The Maytrees
- David Leavitt, The Indian Clerk
- T.M. McNally, The Gateway: Stories
- Ron Rash, Chemistry and Other Stories