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Professor
Caryl Phillips Receives 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award Nomination
 New
York, NY— Barnard Professor Caryl Phillips’ latest
book A Distant Shore (Knopf) has been nominated for
the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award, America’s largest peer-juried
fiction prize.
He is among four other finalists: Frederick Barthelme for
Elroy Nights (Counterpoint); ZZ Packer for Drinking
Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead); John Updike for The Early
Stories (Knopf); and Tobias Wolff for Old School (Knopf).
The chosen finalists were selected out of more than 350 novels
and short story collections published in the United States
during last year. The judges included Ron Carlson, Chitra
Divakaruni and Elizabeth Strout. The winner will be announced
in April and will receive $15,000, and the other finalists
will receive $5,000 each.
A Distant Shore was also nominated for the National
Book Critics Circle Award for fiction among four other nominees.
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