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Imbolo Mbue wins 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for debut novel Behold the Dreamers
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Imbolo Mbue has won the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers.

The $15,000  award honours the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Previous winners include EL Doctorow (twice), Don DeLillo, Ha Jin (twice), E Annie Proulx, Philip Roth (three times), Richard Ford and John Updike.

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