Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg won the $15,000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
"From the first to the last of her collected stories, Deborah Eisenberg
demonstrates her sharp intelligence, literary inventiveness, and her
clear understanding of human interconnectedness as it exists in
isolation," said judge Laura Furman. "Eisenberg's reader often has the
feeling that her characters don't quite understand either who they are
or how they got themselves into their present fix. The struggle of her
characters to create a whole life from the shards of their experience
and emotions forms the moral core of Deborah Eisenberg's work." Eisenberg will be honored along with the other shortlisted authors--Jennifer Egan for A Visit from the Goon Squad; Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule; Eric Puchner for Model Home and Brad Watson for Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives--on May 7 during a ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
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