NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� is up for another literary award 鈥� the PEN/Faulkner Prize for fiction. Other nominees include Louise Erdrich's 鈥淭he Mighty Red,鈥� Rachel Kushner's 鈥淐reation Lake鈥� and Garth Greenwell's 鈥淪mall Rain.鈥�
The awards long list of 10 was announced Monday by the , which will narrow the finalists to five in March and reveal the winner 鈥� who receives $15,000 鈥� in April.
Everett's novel, a dramatic reworking of 鈥淭he Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,鈥� already has won the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It was on the short list for the Booker Prize and is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award,
鈥楶emi Aguda鈥檚 鈥淕hostroots,鈥� Susan Muaddi Darraj's 鈥淏ehind You Is the Sea" and Ruben Reyes Jr.'s 鈥淭here Is a Rio Grande in Heaven鈥� also are PEN/Faulkner nominees, along with Danzy Senna's 鈥淐olored Television,鈥� Ben Shattuck's 鈥淭he History of Sound鈥� and John Vercher's 鈥淒evil Is Fine.鈥�
Previous winners of the award, established in 1981, include Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and Yiyun Li.
The Associated Press
