Peruvian-born and U.S.-raised writer Daniel Alarcón is among the five finalists up for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America's largest peer-juried prize for fiction.
Alarcón is nominated for his second novel titled "At Night We Walk in Circles", published by Riverhead Books. His latest book displays a compelling character study and a political parable exploring the nature of art, love, language, and the distorting effects of war.
The other finalists are Percival Everett for Percival Everett by Virgil Russell (Graywolf Press); Karen Joy Fowler for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (G.P. Putnam’s Sons).
The short list is completed with Joan Silber for Fools (W.W. Norton & Company); and Valerie Trueblood for Search Party: Stories of Rescue (Counterpoint Press).
Alarcón’s previous books are the story collection War By Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. He was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40 in 2010.
His earliest collection of short fiction War by Candlelight was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, while his impressive debut novel Lost City Radio won the International Literature Prize.
The PEN/Faulkner Foundation winner will be announced on April 2.
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Published: 3/5/2014