Ottessa Moshfegh Wins PEN/Hemingway Award

Mar 16, 2016

Ottessa Moshfegh won the $25,000 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award  for her novel 'Eileen' (Penguin).  Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Moshfegh on Sunday, April 10, at a ceremony in Boston.

PEN New England also celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the PEN/Hemingway Award this year. Founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, the wife of Ernest Hemingway, the award honors her late husband. Moshfegh joins other notable PEN/Hemingway winners and honorees of the past, including Marilynne Robinson, Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Lily King, Jennifer Haigh, ZZ Packer, George Saunders, Ha Jin, Sherman Alexie, Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, Ben Fountain, Joshua Ferris, and Teju Cole.

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