Atticus Lish has won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel
“Preparation for the Next Life” (Tyrant Books). The honor includes a $15,000 prize.
The book is about the love story between a Chinese Muslim immigrant and a traumatized Iraq War veteran. The book has received rave reviews and landed on the best of lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and Vanity Fair.
The other finalists nominated in the category include: Jeffery Renard Allen for “Song of the Shank” (Graywolf Press); Jennifer Clement for “Prayers for the Stolen” (Hogarth); Emily St. John Mandel for “Station Eleven” (Alfred A. Knopf); Jenny Offill for “Dept. of Speculation” (Alfred A. Knopf)