Philip Roth has won the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The award carries a $40,000 prize.
“To my mind, Saul Bellow and William Faulkner form the backbone of 20th-century American literature,” Roth said in a statement given to The Associated Press.
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Also, and just for fun, Maud has linked to the Gary Shteyngart and George Saunders reading from last year’s New Yorker Festival. I was actually at the event, and recalled in a previous post that the moderator “was so dry he was a fire hazard.” That’s not to say he didn’t do a good job; he was just very dry. Maybe you go and see?
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