Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Gwydion Suilebhan on how literary awards actually work—who gets nominated, how judges make decisions, and what winning a major prize can mean for a writer and a book.

From HOW LITERARY AWARDS WORK, my conversation with Gwydion Suilebhan, Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. PEN/Faulkner’s 2026 Award for Fiction went to Mahreen Sohail for her debut story collection SMALL SCALE SINNERS.

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