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TC Alumna Imbolo Mbue Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award

Imbolo Mbue (M.A. '06) (Photo: Kiriko Sano)
Imbolo Mbue (M.A. '06) (Photo: Kiriko Sano)
Imbolo Mbue (M.A. '06) won the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award --  America’s largest peer-juried fiction prize – for her debut novel, Behold the Dreamers (Random House, 2016), about an immigrant chauffeur from Mbue's native Cameroon and his employer, a Wall Street executive, during the 2008 financial crisis.

To read the story, go here.

Published Monday, May 22, 2017