‘Sanctified Stephen King’ to be commended for body of work

Best-selling author Frank Peretti has been named this year’s recipient of the American Christian Fiction Writers’ (ACFW) Lifetime Achievement Award.

“The very essence of what Christian fiction could encompass forever changed with the release of Peretti’s This Present Darkness,” said ACFW executive board member Allen Arnold. “That wasn’t Frank’s goal. He quietly wrote the story that God stirred his heart with. But that novel ripped wide the veil between the seen and unseen.

“That novel brought men and teens in droves to the Christian fiction aisle—no small feat,” added Arnold, formerly Thomas Nelson’s fiction publisher. “It showed how Christian fiction can be muscular and unabashedly speculative with angels and demons fighting around us and impacted by our prayers. More than 25 years later, Frank continues to quietly write novels from his home in the wilderness—novels that quicken the pace and stir the souls of any who dare dive in.”

In addition to his New York Times best-sellers This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness (both Crossway), Peretti’s other novels include the best-sellers House and Monster (both Thomas Nelson) and Illusion (Howard Books). The Oath (Word Publishing) was awarded the 1996 Gold Medallion Award for best fiction. 

With more than 15 million novels in print, Peretti has been called “America’s hottest Christian novelist” and a “sanctified Stephen King.” 

Three of Peretti’s novels have been adapted into feature films, including the Young Adult title Hangman’s Curse (Thomas Nelson), The Visitation (Thomas Nelson) and House.

Peretti and Carol Awards winners will be honored at the ACFW national conference, to be held Sept. 15 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis. Best-selling author Robin Jones Gunn is the keynote speaker of the conference.

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