3 Southlanders Among PEN Award Nominees

Five novelists, three of them from Southern California, have been nominated for the 1988 PEN/Faulkner award in fiction.

The nominees are Richard Bausch of Fairfax, Va., for “Spirits” (Simon & Schuster); T. Coraghessan Boyle of Woodland Hills for “World’s End” (Viking); Alice McDermott of La Jolla for “That Night” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); Lawrence Thornton of Claremont for “Imagining Argentina” (Doubleday), and Cynthia Ozick for “The Messiah of Stockholm” (Knopf).

The winner will receive $5,000 and the four other nominees $1,000 each.