Arts Desk
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PEN/FAULKNER TO HA JIN
Ha Jin’s novel “War Trash” (Pantheon) was selected yesterday as the winner of the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Mr. Jin will receive $15,000.The four finalists – Jerome Charyn for “The Green Lantern” (Thunder’s Mouth Press), Edwidge Danticat for “The Dew Breaker” (Knopf), Marilynne Robinson for “Gilead” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Steve Yarbrough for “Prisoners of War” (Alfred A. Knopf) – will receive $5,000 each.
Mr. Jin lives in the Boston area and is a professor of English at Boston University. He previously won the PEN/Faulkner Award and National Book Award for his 1999 novel “Waiting” (Pantheon).
The judges – David Anthony Durham, Herbert Gold, and Kathryn Harrison – considered more than 300 novels and short story collections from 2004. All five authors will be honored during the 25th annual PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., on May 14. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the PEN/Faulkner Award is the largest peer-juried prize for fiction in the United States.
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‘2046’ TO PREMIERE AT TRIBECA
Sony Pictures Classics announced the acquisition of North American distribution rights to filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s “2046,” which will have its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, followed by a general release in the fall.
