| PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000): For a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective.Judges: Julia Angwin, Rich Benjamin, Jeff Biggers, Charles Duhigg, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Lizzie Stark, and Jessica Valenti |
 Winner:
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City |
| PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards ($7,500 & $2,500): Three awards which honor a Master American Dramatist, American Playwright in Mid-Career, and Emerging American Playwright. Judges: Oskar Eustis, Michael C. Hall, and Young Jean Lee |
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| PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000): For a book of literary nonfiction on the subject of the physical or biological sciences. Judges: Emily Anthes, Amy Ellis Nutt, Robin Marantz Henig, and Emma Marris |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets |
| PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History ($10,000): For an unpublished literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. Judges: Gaiutra Bahadur, Helen Epstein, and Dan Kennedy |
Winner: Aleksandar Hemon How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement (Work in progress) |
| PEN Open Book Award ($5,000): For an exceptional work of literature by an author of color. Judges: Ishmael Beah, Major Jackson, and Bich Minh Nguyen |
 Winner:
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours |
| PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000): For a distinguished biography. Judges: Evelyn C. White, Joyce Johnson, and Yunte Huang |
 Winner:
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary |
| PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry($5,000): For a new and emerging American poet with the promise of further literary achievement Judges: Camille Dungy, Ada Limón, and Patrick Phillips |
 Winner:
The Verging Cities |
| PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): For a nonfiction book on the subject of sports. Judges: Jay Capsian Jang, Juliet Macur, and David Owen |
 Winner:
Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA |
| PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000): For a writer whose body of work represents an exceptional contribution to the field. Judges:Pete Hamill, Sally Jenkins, and Michael Sokolove |
 Winner:
William Nack |
| PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship($5,000): For an author of children’s or young-adult fiction to complete a book-length work-in-progress. Judges: Margarita Engle, Sharyn November, and Polly Shulman |
 Winner:
Phillippe Diederich |
| PEN Translation Prize ($3,000): For a book-length translation of prose into English.Judges: Mara Faye Lethem, Jeremy Tiang, Elizabeth Lowe, Annie Tucker, and Dennis Washburn |
 Winner:
Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap |
| PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000): For a book-length translation of poetry into English. Judges: Jennifer Grotz, Kyoo Lee, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips |
 Winner:
Pearl: A New Verse Translation |
| PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing ($2,500) To a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Judges: Michael Dumanis, David L. Ulin, and Caitlin McKenna |
 Winner:
Michael Archer and Joel Whitney |
| PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers ($2,000 to 12 writers): Recognizing twelve emerging fiction writers for their debut short story published in a literary magazine or cultural website in 2016. The twelve winning stories will be published in an anthology titled PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, forthcoming from Catapult. Judges: Marie-Helene Bertino, Kelly Link and Nina McConigley |
| “Galina” (Fifth Wednesday Journal), Angela Ajayi “The Handler” (Southwest Review), Amber Caron “Tell Me, Please” (The Common), Emily Chammah “The Asphodel Meadow” (The Summerset Review), Jim Cole “Solee” (The Southern Review), Crystal Hana Kim “The Manual Alphabet” (Fence), Samuel Clare Knights “Goldhawk” (The Malahat Review), Katherine Magyarody “A Modern Marriage” (Boston Review), Grace Oluseyi “1,000-Year-Old Ghosts” (Hyphen Magazine), Laura Chow Reeve “State Facts for the New Age” (The Rumpus), Amy Sauber “A Message” (Epiphany: A Literary Journal), Ruth Serven “Edwin Chase of Nantucket” (Harvard Review), Ben Shattuck |
| PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ($2,000-$4,000) & PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature ($5,000). Judges: Tynan Kogane, Edna McCown, Fiona McCrae, Canaan Morse, Idra Novey, Allison Markin Powell, Antonio Romani, Chip Rossetti, and Shabnam Nadiya |
| Floral Mutter by YA Shi (哑石) translated from the Chinese by Nick Admussen The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky by Misumi Kubo, translated from the Japenese by Polly Barton The Palimpsests by Aleksandra Lun, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer Felix Austria by Sophia Andrukhovych, translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky Mr. by Raoul Schrott, translated from the German by Iain Galbraith Edinburgh Notebook by Valerie Mejer Caso, translated from the Spanish byMichelle Gil-Montero The Remainder by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes Thirteen Months of Sunrises by Rania Mamoun, translated from the Arabic byElisabeth Jaquette The Arab by Pooneh Rohi, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson I Didn’t Talk by Beatriz Bracher, translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris A Parade by Nhã Thuyên, translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin Rees Wûf by Kemal Varol, translated from the Turkish by Dayla Rogers In Your Name by Mauro Covacich, translated from the Italian by Christopher Tamigi There’s a Carnival Today by Indra Bahadur Rai, translated from the Nepali byManjushree Thapa This Land That Is Like You by Tobie Nathan, translated from the French by Joyce Zonana |
| Winners of the following awards will be announced live at the 2017 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 27. |
| PEN/Jean Stein Book Award ($75,000): To recognize a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact. Judges: The judges serve anonymously until announced at a later date. |
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| Known and Strange Things (Random House), Teju Cole Olio (Wave Books), Tyehimba Jess The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between (Random House), Hisham Matar Dark Money (Doubleday/Penguin Random House), Jane Mayer The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House), Colson Whitehead |
| PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize ($25,000): For a fiction writer whose debut work represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise. Judges: Jami Attenberg, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Randall Kenan, Hanna Pylväinen, and Akhil Sharma |
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| Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky), Rion Amilcar Scott We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books/UNC Wilmington), Clare Beams The Mothers (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House), Brit Bennett Homegoing (Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House), Yaa Gyasi Hurt People (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), Cote Smith |
| PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000): For a book of essays that exemplifies the dignity and esteem of the essay form. Judges: Eula Biss, Kiese Laymon, and Paul Steiger |
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| The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood (Graywolf Press), Belle Boggs Known and Strange Things (Random House), Teju Cole A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and The Mind (Simon & Schuster), |
PEN America Announces Literary Award Winners
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