The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

“Writing a novel is like sending a message in a bottle to the unknown.

“I am deeply honored, thrilled, and grateful for this award,” said Li. Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, T he Best American Short Stories, and The PEN/O. She is the recipient of many awards, including the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize. Yiyun Li is the author of several works of fiction- Must I Go, Where Reasons End, Kinder Than Solitude, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Vagrants, and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl -and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. It is an honor to give Yiyun Li the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.” We kept finding that we wanted to press this book on others. The prose is singular the central characters, Agnès and Fabienne, haunted us with their radical ingenuity and bold, unruly ambitions. “It’s a tale of a complicated friendship, of two girls bending toward and away from each other. “Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose is a dazzling, conventions-defying, nuanced novel,” said this year’s judges. Submissions came from 205 publishing houses, including independent and academic presses. Kwon, and Tiphanie Yanique -considered 512 eligible novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2022 calendar year. This year’s judges- Christopher Bollen, R.O. We look forward to celebrating Li and her gifted fellow finalists at our awards ceremony in May.” “This latest tribute from our judges affirms that she is equally accomplished in the long form.

“In December, we were pleased to honor Yiyun Li with the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story,” said PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair Louis Bayard. We are excited to announce that Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux ) has been selected as the winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine