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Description: The institutional twitter feed of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
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Subject: Folger Shakespeare Library., PEN/Faulkner Foundation., Literary prizes--United States.
Creator: PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Publisher: Twitter.
Rights: Copyright © PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Relation: http://www.penfaulkner.org/, http://www.facebook.com/penfaulkner/
Collector: Folger Shakespeare Library. Central Library.
Description: The institutional website for the PEN / Faulkner Foundation. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction was founded in 1980 by National Book Award winner Mary Lee Settle. Her goal was to establish a national prize that would recognize literary fiction of excellence, an award juried by writers for writers, free of commercial concerns. The prize was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to establish an award for younger writers, and PEN, the international writers’ organization. The first Award was given in May 1981, at a ceremony held in the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Today, the PEN/Faulkner Award is one of the top three national fiction awards, and the largest annual peer-juried prize in America. As Philip Roth noted when he received the 2007 Award, "PEN/Faulkner has consistently recognized works of quality." The Award frequently recognizes new and emerging writers. In 1983, Dr. O.B. Hardison Jr., then director of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., offered to house the administration of the PEN/Faulkner Award within the Folger. Shortly after the move to Washington, PEN/Faulkner organized itself as an independent charitable arts foundation and began hosting a series of public fiction readings at the Folger. In 1989 the foundation launched the Writers in Schools program. An essential cultural organization, PEN/Faulkner continues to provide arts enrichment to the Washington metropolitan area. Mary Lee Settle’s mission--to create a community of writers, honor excellence in American fiction, and encourage a love of reading--has found ever-expanding expression in the work and outreach of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
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Subject: Folger Shakespeare Library., PEN/Faulkner Foundation., Literary prizes--United States.
Creator: PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Publisher: PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Date: 2000-
Rights: Copyright © PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
Relation: http://www.facebook.com/penfaulkner/ , http://twitter.com/penfaulkner/
Collector: Folger Shakespeare Library. Central Library.
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