Joan Silber's 'Improvement' wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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Joan Silber's 'Improvement' wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Apr 04 2018

Joan Silber has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.)

All five finalists (Silber, Hernán Díaz, Samantha Hunt, Achy Obejas and Jesmyn Ward) will read from their work at the ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Silber will receive $15,000; the other finalists will each receive $5,000.

Source: The Washington Post

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