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31/03/2004
Updike wins the PEN/Faulkner Award
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike has won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his short story collection 'The Early Stories'.
Updike's book, which contains most of his stories from 1953 to 1975, was chosen ahead of works by Frederick Barthelme ('Elroy Nights'), ZZ Packer ('Drinking Coffee Elsewhere'), Caryl Phillips ('A Distant Shore') and Tobias Wolff ('Old School').
The panel of Judges consisted of fellow authors Ron Carlson, Chitra Divakaruni and Elizabeth Strout, with Carlson describing 'The Early Stories' as "an astonishing display of what prose should be and what it can do".
The PEN/Faulkner Award is billed as the largest annual juried prize for fiction in the United States and the winner receives $15,000.
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