Today the PEN/Faulkner Foundation revealed the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nominees. Below, we’ve created a literary mixtape linking to free samples of all five novels.
The release has more information about the award: “The winner, who will receive $15,000, will be announced on March 15; the four finalists will receive $5,000 each. In a ceremony that celebrates the winner as ‘first among equals,’ all five authors will be honored during the 31st Annual PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library, located at 201 East Capitol Street, SE on Saturday, May 7, at 7pm.”
If you want more books, we made similar mixtapes linking to free samples of 2011 Edgar Awards finalists, the 2011 ALA Youth Media Awards winners, the 2011 Book Critics Circle Awards finalists, the Best Translated Books Longlist, the Believer Book Awards shortlist, and the Best Books of 2010.
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9:29 David Steinberger, chairman of the National Book Foundation is on stage talking about how the judges decide on the winners. It happened today at lunch.
9:32 Steinberger is thanking all of the former winners and the sponsors.
9:34 Steinberger is naming the winners of the Innovations in Reading Prize from earlier in the week. Find out more here.
9:39 Andy Borowitz is back on stage to introduce Tor Seidler who is presenting the award for The Young People’s Literature. There were more than 200 novels in the category.
9:42 The winner is Kathryn Erskine for Mockingbird.
9:44 Cornelius Eady is taking the stage to present the award for Poetry.
9:50 The winner is Terrance Hayes for Lighthead.
9:52 Marjorie Garber has taken the stage to present the award for Nonfiction.
9:54 The winner is Patti Smith for Just Kids. Smith says she always wanted to have a book of her own since she worked in a book store as a kid. “There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” She says never to abandon the book.
9:58 Joanna Scott is taking the stage to introduce the award for Fiction.
10:04 The winner is Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule. Gordon: “I am totally unprepared and I am totally surprised.”
10:06 The awards are over, thanks for following our live blog.
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