PEN America Literary Award Longlists Announced

Dec 20, 2017

PEN America has released the longlists for its 2018 Literary Awards, which recognize nearly 70 titles spanning the range of literary work including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translation, and lifetime achievement.

The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards longlists include breakout authors Carmen Maria Machado for Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf Press) and Jenny Zhang for Sour Heart (Lenny); literary icons Edwidge Danticat for The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Graywolf Press) and Ursula K. Le Guin for No Time to Spare (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); historian and activist Rebecca Solnit for The Mother of All Questions (Haymarket Books); heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson for Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato with Larry “Ratso” Sloman (Blue Rider Press); and Hamilton author Ron Chernow for his newest historical biography Grant (Penguin Press), among others. 

Finalists for the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards will be announced in January, and winners will be revealed at the Literary Awards Ceremony on February 20 at the NYU Skirball Center in New York.

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