Washington foundation PEN/Faulkner organized PEN/Faulkner Award. Results were reported by Susan Richards Shreve and Robert Stone from this foundation. The winner is writer Joseph O´Neill with the novel Netherland. This happy man won 15 000 $! But it isn´t his first prize, he owned two other awards, too – National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. He won it for a novel about life after September 11, 2001.The book Netherland has similar theme. It´s about man, who lived in centre of Manhattan in time of terrorist attacts on World Trade Center.
There were three other candidates in final – Sarah Shun-Lien with the book Ms. Hempel Chronicles, Susan Choi with a literary work Person of Interest and Richard Price with the book Serena. Each of these writers won 5000 $.
Next „the best book award“ is Warwick Award. It was realized first time at this year and it was found at Warwick university. This award will be granted every second year. It will have only one restriction - a theme. „Complexity“ was the theme of this year.
The first winner of this competition is writer and journalist Naomi Klein with the book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She presents her opinion, that companies and governments utilize nature and disasters, e.g. tsunami in Asia in 2004, to enforce own interests. A jury entitled the book as a „provokatively“ and „excellent“. „The book has opened many discussions and it will create more and more“, noted China Mieville, the president of jury.
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