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Thomas Mallon's novel 'Watergate' nominated for $15,000 PEN/Faulkner prize

By: The Associated Press

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2013 at 10:33 AM | Comments: 0

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thomas Mallon's novel about the scandal that brought down Richard Nixon is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.

Published by Random House Inc., Mallon's "Watergate" was among five nominees for the $15,000 award. Three other books announced Wednesday were published by smaller presses, as judges bypassed such high-profile works of fiction as Louise Erdrich's "The Round House" and Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her."

Two finalists were released by Coffee House Press: Laird Hunt's "Kind One" and T. Geronimo's "Hold It 'Til It Hurts." The other nominees were Amelia Gray's "Threats," from Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and Benjamin Alire Saenz's story collection "Everything Begins & Ends," published by Cinco Puntos Press.

Previous winners of the PEN/Faulkner prize include Philip Roth and John Updike.

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