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2023 PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration

Thursday, May 11, 2023
6 pm: cocktails, 7 pm: award celebration, 8 pm: dinner
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

An Event to Remember for Contemporary Fiction Lovers

Our 43nd Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Celebration on May 11, 2023 will honor this year’s distinguished books and authors. This exquisite literary evening will feature presentations by our judges; original readings by our winner and four finalists; and a celebration of Terry Gross, our 2023 PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion.

HONOREES

Our 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner and Finalists

Terry Gross, Literary Champion

SPECIAL GUESTS

Christopher Bollen, 2023 Judge
R. O. Kwon, 2023 Judge
Tiphanie Yanique, 2023 Judge

Ron Charles, Master of Ceremonies

CO-CHAIRS

Elliot Ackerman & Lea Carpenter
Katherine Boone & Joshua Geltzer

CELEBRATION TEAM

Elliot Ackerman & Lea Carpenter
Marie Arana & Jonathan Yardley
Jabari & Liana Asim
Katherine Boone & Joshua Geltzer
Susan Coll & Paul Goldberg
Molly Elkin & Ivan Wasserman
Renée & Stephen Gardner
Patricia Griffith
Mary & Robert Haft
Sophia McCrocklin & William Isaacson
Relegation Books
Jung Yun & Joel Anderson

 *This list is current as of February 6, 2023. 

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2022 Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

“I am beyond excited for receiving this great award. I wish to thank all involved, the PEN/Faulkner board, the judges. This is such an honor. No writer can look at the list of books that have won the PEN/Faulkner Award and not be humbled and honored to have their book listed among them.”
– Rabih Alameddine, Author of The Wrong End of the Telescope

Terry Gross

Terry Gross

OUR 2023 PEN/FAULKNER LITERARY CHAMPION

Terry Gross

Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, the daily program of interviews and reviews. It is produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, where Gross began hosting the show in 1975, when it was broadcast locally. Her interviews with leading writers, actors, directors, musicians, comics, journalists, scholars, and others now reach 4.9 million people weekly, on 659 NPR stations across the U.S. and Europe. Fresh Air was the most downloaded podcast on Apple Podcasts in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

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