The PEN/Faulkner Foundation has announced that Joseph O’Neill’s novel Netherland has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Award for Fiction. The judges considered close to 350 novels and short story collections by American authors published in 2008. The 2008 award went to the novel The Great Man by Brooklyn's own Kate Christenson. This year’s winning novel, published by Pantheon Books, is about a Dutch-born banker, his British wife and their son, who live in New York during the Sept. 11 attack and its aftermath. The Pen/Faulkner Award, which comes with a prize of $15,000, will be given to  O’Neill at a ceremony on May 9 in Washington, D.C.