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Washington State author Sherman Alexie's novel War Dances, has been selected as the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. 

war_dances.gifOne of the foremost prizes for literary fiction in the nation, The PEN/Faulkner Award honors the best published works of fiction by American writers in a calendar year. Three judges, writers themselves, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country.

Also nominated for the award:

Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna

Lorraine M. Lopez: Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories

Lorrie More: A Gate at the Stairs

                            Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor

 

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