PEN/Faulkner Foundation

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi of South Bend, Indiana, and Florence, Italy, won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Call Me Zebra (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She received $15,000. The finalists were Blanche McCrary Boyd of New London, Connecticut, for her novel Tomb of the Unknown Racist (Counterpoint Books); Richard Powers of Townsend, Tennessee, for his novel The Overstory (Norton); Ivelisse Rodriguez of Whitsett, North Carolina, for her story collection, Love War Stories (Feminist Press); and Willy Vlautin of Scappoose, Oregon, for his novel Don’t Skip Out on Me (Harper Perennial). They each received $5,000. Percival Everett, Ernesto Quiñonez, and Joy Williams judged.

The annual award is given for a work of fiction by a U.S. writer published in the previous year. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Award for Fiction, 641 South Street, Third Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001. (202) 898-9063.

www.penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction