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 Arthur Sze for 
winning the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry for his book
Sight Lines and to the following faculty, guests, and participants
who were included on the Finalists list:

Jericho Brown, The Tradition; Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems;
Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness
and Resistance; Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic; Laila Lalami, The Other Americans;
Carmen Giménez Smith, Be Recorder; and David Treuer, The Heartbeat
of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.

Reading & Lecture Audio Recordings 
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Bread Loaf Reading & Lecture Recordings