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PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel ($25,000)
for an outstanding work of debut fiction More
2014 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
Born and raised in Zimbabwe, NoViolet Bulawayo earned her MFA at Cornell University, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship, and is now a Wallace Stegner… More
2013 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
Writing for The New York Times, Ben Percy asserts that, with The Yellow Birds, "Kevin Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and… More
2015 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
In selecting Arna Bontemps Hemenway, the judges wrote: “In Elegy on Kinderklavier, attention is salvation. These stories are not afraid to stare in unblinking and finely grained detail at… More
2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
In selecting Eileen as winner of the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award, this year’s judges—authors Alexandra Marshall, Jay Parini, and former PEN/Hemingway winner Joshua Ferris—praised Ottessa Moshfegh for her “prowess and her… More
2017 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction
Yaa Gyasi is the winner of the 2017 PEN/Hemingway Award. More
Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’ Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award
Weike Wang's "Chemistry" is this year's recipient of the PEN/Hemingway Award, PEN America told The Associated Press on Thursday. Ernest Hemingway's grandson, Sean Hemingway, will present the award to… More
Debut Author Weike Wang Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for “Elliptical Prose” in Chemistry
Debut author Weike Wang won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, Chemistry (Knopf). Séan Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Weike Wang… More
Announcing the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner
PEN America and the esteemed judges Chris Castellani, Geraldine Brooks, and Elizabeth Strout are thrilled to announce that Weike Wang is the winner of the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. More
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