Claire Jiménez Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award

Claire Jiménez’s What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

This year's finalists included Jamel Brinkley's Witness, Henry Hoke's Open Throat, Alice McDermott's Absolution, and Colin WInnette's Users

The judges—Xochitl Gonzalez, Alan Michael Parker, and Lynn Steger Strong—considered 445 eligible novels and short story collections by American authors published in the US during the 2023 calendar year. Submissions came from 183 publishing houses, including independent and academic presses.

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