PEN America Literary Awards Longlist
The longlists for the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards have been announced, and include several works of genre interest.
- The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)
- Pew, Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD)
PEN Open Book Award ($10,000)
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection ($25,000)
- Heartland Calamitous, Michael Credico (Autumn House)
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel ($10,000)
- These Ghosts are Family, Maisy Card (Simon and Schuster)
- Temporary, Hilary Leichter (Coffee House)
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn (MCD)
- How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C Pam Zhang (Riverhead)
PEN Translation Prize ($3,000)
- The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Shokoofeh Azar, translated anonymously (Europa)
- Ornamental, Juan Cárdenas, translanted by Lizzie Davis (Coffee House)
- Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles (Riverhead)
- Girls Lost, Jessica Schiefauer, translated by Saskia Vogel (Deep Vellum)
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000)
- In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)
PEN America “confers over 20 distinct awards, fellowships, grants and prizes each year, awarding nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.” Categories include poetry, essay, biography, and science writing. The shortlist will be announced in February 2021.
For more information, including the complete longlist, see the PEN America website.
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