Congratulations to Bread Loafers Amina Gautier and Joan Silber for winning 
the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Awards and to finalists Hernán Diaz and 
Samantha Hunt!

Amina Gautier won the 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the 
Short Story and Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 
her novel Improvement. Hernán Diaz (In The Distance) and Samantha 
Hunt (The Dark Dark) were included on the 2018 finalist list for the 
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Tiphanie Yanique Interview:

Congratulations to Bread Loaf Faculty Member Sigrid Nunez for Winning the 2018 National   
Book Award in Fiction for The Friend and to the Following Faculty, Guests, 
and Participants who were included on the National Book Award Longlists: 

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man; Lauren Groff, Florida; Terrance Hayes,
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin; Tayari Jones, An 
American Marriage; Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of; Rebecca Solnit,
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays); 
Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected; and Jenny Xie, Eye Level.

Reading & Lecture Audio Recordings 
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Bread Loaf Reading & Lecture Recordings