PEN announced the 2016 Literary Awards shortlist today after judges narrowed down each of the eight categories to five books. More than $200,000 will be received by writers and translators of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography and essays.
Winners of all the 2016 awards will be announced on March 1, excluding those for Debut Fiction, Art of the Essay, and Literary Science Writing awards, as well as the PEN Open Book and the PEN/Fusion Prize, which will be named live at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on April 11 at The New School in NYC.
The shortlist in its entirety can be viewed below:
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000)
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
The Sympathizer: A Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000)
After the Tall Timber: Collected Non-Fiction by Renata Adler
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates
The Quarry by Susan Howe
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000)
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne Jr.
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star by Tom Clynes
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World by Alexandra Witze & Jeff Kanipe
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