Claire Jiménez's "What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez" wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Claire Jiménez's novel "What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez" has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Set in New York City, the book explores a Puerto Rican family's search for a missing girl. The $15,000 award was announced on 15 March and lauded Jiménez's "nuanced, humorous, and human" character work and language deployment. Previous winners include Philip Roth, Ann Patchett, and Deesha Philyaw.

April 02, 2024
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