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PEN/Malamud Award
The PEN/Malamud Award and Memorial Reading honors "excellence in the art of the short story", and is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. The selection committee is composed of PEN/Faulkner directors and representatives of Bernard Malamud's literary executors. The award was first given in 1988.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
Award winners.
- 2019 - John Edgar Wideman
- 2018
the Drawer" in "The Atlantic Monthly", April 1968
- 1984 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, runner-up for "The Stories"
PEN/Malamud Award
Given annually since 1988 to honor Malamud's memory, the PEN/Malamud Award recognizes excellence in the art of the short story. The award is funded in part by Malamud's $10,000 bequest to the PEN American Center. The fund continues to grow thanks to the generosity of many members of PEN and other friends, and with the