NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Yiyun Li's novel 鈥淭he Book of Goose鈥� and the debut work 鈥淪weet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell are among 10 nominees on the long list for one of the top literary prizes, the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. The list also includes 鈥滵oes My Body Offend You?", a collaboration between Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt.
鈥淭his delightfully diverse list showcases the breadth of American literature, and underscores our ongoing mission to champion fiction that matters, PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair Louis Bayard said in a statement Tuesday.
Nominees also include Rub茅n Degollado's 鈥淭he Family Izquierdo,鈥� Jonathan Escoffery's 鈥溾�滻f I Survive You," Conner Habib's 鈥淗awk Mountain,鈥� Kathryn Harlan's 鈥淔ruiting Bodies,鈥� Dionne Irving's 鈥淭he Islands,鈥� Meng Jin's 鈥淪elf-Portrait with Ghost鈥� and Mat Johnson's 鈥淚nvisible Things.鈥�
Judges for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation will narrow the list to five in early March, and announce a winner in April. The winner receives $15,000 and the other four finalists $5,000 each. Previous recipients of the award, founded in 1981, include Don DeLillo, Ann Patchett and Imbolo Mbue.
The Associated Press
