Roth wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

[Via the SJCPL Blog]

Eeeryman by Philip Roth has won the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Roth is the first three-time winner of the award. His previous titles awarded are Operation Shylock and The Human Stain. This national prize honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation is an outgrowth of William Faulkner’s generosity in donating his 1949 Nobel Prize winnings “to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers.”

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