Alexie wins PEN/Faulkner award for 'War Dances'

[March 24, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- Sherman Alexie has won the PEN/Faulkner prize for fiction for his short story collection "War Dances."

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced Tuesday that Alexie will receive $15,000 for the prize. His collection touches on everything from parenthood to the Sept. 11 attacks.

The prize was established in 1981 and has been won by Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow and others.

Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" won the National Book Award for young people's literature in 2007.

[Associated Press]

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