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