Chloe Aridjis’ Sea Monsters has been selected as the winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

PEN/Faulkner is a nonprofit literary organization that promotes a lifelong love of reading and a connection to writing through public events, in-school education, and public promotion of exceptional literary achievement. The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is one of the highest honors available to American fiction writers.

Of Sea Monster, this year’s judges said, “This dreamlike near-fable of equal parts philosophical and intellectual vigor is a book unlike any other; a true standout and a gift for these times in which we are all craving escape.”