William Faulkner Foundation

[Don Higgins]

There's a NYT's article from Feb. 1 announcing V.'s selection for the award. For some reason, it didn't show up when I used simply search but did when I used the advanced searh. Sorry about being late on this. I keep forgetting I have access to the NYT's archives.
 
--- On Mon, 8/6/12, Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Max Nemtsov <max.nemtsov at gmail.com>
> Subject: William Faulkner Foundation
> To: "pynchon-l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, August 6, 2012, 10:45 AM
> colleagues,
> an interesting issue came to my attention via one of the
> Russian readers of TRP
> 
> all possible sources, including dust jackets, inform us
> that, for his debut novel V., TRP received "much coveted"
> (or whatever) William Faulkner Foundation Award for the Best
> Debut Novel, right?
> now, the Wiki gives link to the WFF, that turns out to be
> the PEN/Faulkner Foundation: http://www.penfaulkner.org/ - established in 1980,
> giving out prizes, however NOT for debut novels, and with no
> connection to the award we're interested in. apparently,
> this is a somewhat different WFF
> there exists, however, the WFF that looks like the one we
> need, mentioned here: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/faulkner/
> - but I was unable to find any mention of best debut novel
> prizes it might have given in the 1960s, and it seems to be
> in a rather sorrow state
> the issue was more or less addressed by someone here: http://stormville.blogspot.com/2011/10/william-faulkner-foundation-first-novel.html
> - about a year ago, with no conclusive results
> could anyone clarify the situation with this elusive WFF?
> does anyone know anything? what happened then and there? who
> gave TRP the award, and did anyone really do it?
> Mx
>