Congratulations to James Hannaham, winner of the 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel, DELICIOUS FOODS. The 36th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Ceremony & Dinner will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 7:00pm at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The PEN/Faulkner Award honors the best work of fiction published by an American in a single calendar year. The largest peer-reviewed literary prize in the country, the PEN/Faulkner Award continues to recognize the finest American fiction being produced today. For more information about the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the PEN/Faulkner Award, please visit http://www.penfaulkner.org/
 

2016 Winner

• DELICIOUS FOODS by James Hannaham (Little, Brown)

2016 Finalists

• DELICIOUS FOODS by James Hannaham (Little, Brown)
• MR. AND MRS. DOCTOR by Julie Iromuanya (Coffee House Press)
• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• MENDOCINO FIRE by Elizabeth Tallent (Harper)
• THE WATER MUSEUM by Luis Alberto Urrea (Little, Brown)