the PEN/Faulkner Foundation
/ðə ˌpen ˈfɔːknə faʊndeɪʃn/
/ðə ˌpen ˈfɔːknər faʊndeɪʃn/
- an organization set up by writers in 1980 and named after the writer William Faulkner, who used his 1949 Nobel Prize money to create an award for young writers, and PEN, an international writers’ organization. The organization gives a prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, every year for the best novel by an American writer and also has programmes in schools in certain US cities to encourage young people to become interested in literature.
PEN / Faulkner基金会：由作家成立的组织，由作家William Faulkner命名，该组织使用1949年诺贝尔奖获得者为年轻作家设立奖项，并以国际作家组织PEN命名。该组织每年都会颁发一项奖项，即PEN /福克纳小说奖，以表彰一名美国作家的最佳小说，并且还在美国某些城市的学校开设计划，以鼓励年轻人对文学产生兴趣。