Yaa Gyasi’s new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, has been longlisted for the 2021 PEN/FaulknerAward for Fiction.
The PEN/Faulkner Award was established in 1980 in honor of the American writer and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner, who was notable for his charity towards younger writers, and the international writing organization PEN.
$15,000 cash award is confered to the winner and $5,000 to four finalists.The longlist of ten was selected from 419 submissions by a judging that included Charles Finch, Bernice L. McFadden, and Alexi Zetner.
In a press release, Louis Bayard, the PEN/Faulkner’s Awards Committee Chair said “the ten titles chosen for our longlist are a powerful reminder that fiction is as essential as ever.” A shortlist of five would be announced in early March and the winner revealed in April.
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