Joan Silber wins 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Celebrating the winner as “first among equals,” the 38th Annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony took place at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. The event featured the judges’ citations for each finalist’s book, the conferral of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a reading by each author.

Below, a photo of the winner, faculty member Joan Silber, author of Improvement, with finalists Achy Obejas (fiction, ’93), author of The Tower of the Antilles, and Samantha Hunt (fiction, ’99), author of The Dark Dark. They are flanked by faculty members (and judges) Stacey D’Erasmo and Andrea Barrett. The photo was taken by Joan’s husband, Joe Hagen.