The Library of Congress will award Ann Patchett its 2026 Prize for American Fiction, for “an American literary writer whose body of work is distinguished by its mastery of the art, as well as its originality of thought and imagination.”
“Ann Patchett crafts moving, probing, tender novels,” Acting Librarian of Congress Robert R. Newlen said in a release. “She has a talent for creating fiction that readers continually devour because she thinks deeply and writes evocatively about human connection.”
Patchett will receive the award at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC on August 22.
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