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The PEN/Faulkner Award is a prestigious literary prize presented annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to honor the best American fiction published in the previous year. Established in 1981, it recognizes literary excellence and celebrates the diversity of voices in American literature. Renowned authors, including Bernard Malamud, E. L. Doctorow, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, have been among its distinguished recipients.