Percival Everett’s ‘James’ amongst nominees on the lengthy listing for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize

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NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett’s “James” is up for an additional literary award — the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Different nominees embrace Louise Erdrich’s “The Mighty Red,” Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” and Garth Greenwell’s “Small Rain.”

The awards lengthy listing of 10 was introduced Monday by the PEN/Faulkner Basis, which is able to slim the finalists to 5 in March and reveal the winner — who receives $15,000 — in April.

Everett’s novel, a dramatic remodeling of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” already has gained the Nationwide E book Award, the Kirkus Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It was on the brief listing for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for a Nationwide E book Critics Circle award,

‘Pemi Aguda’s “Ghostroots,” Susan Muaddi Darraj’s “Behind You Is the Sea” and Ruben Reyes Jr.’s “There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven” are also PEN/Faulkner nominees, together with Danzy Senna’s “Colored Television,” Ben Shattuck’s “The History of Sound” and John Vercher’s “Devil Is Fine.”

Earlier winners of the award, established in 1981, embrace Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and Yiyun Li.

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