by Marsha Dubrow ||EXAMINER.COM || MAY 2010

Native American author Sherman Alexie won this year’s prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his innovative book War Dances, the DC-based organization announced.

Alexie’s War Dances (Grove Press), short stories linked through poems, was selected among almost 350 novels and short story collections published by US authors in 2009.

The four finalists were Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna, Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stairs, Lorraine M. Lopez for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, and Colson Whitehead for Sag Harbor.

Alexie and the finalists read from their works on May 8 at the 30th annual PEN/Faulkner Award Ceremony at DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library.

The winner receives $15,000, and each of the four finalists receives $5,000 for the award, the largest peer-juried fiction prize in the United States. >>READ MORE

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