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Debut author Weike Wang won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, Chemistry (Knopf). Séan Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway,…
Critically-acclaimed debut novelist Ruchika Tomar is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, for A Prayer for…
Critically-acclaimed debut author Tommy Orange is the winner of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his novel There There (Knopf), PEN America announced…
PEN America and the esteemed judges Chris Castellani, Geraldine Brooks, and Elizabeth Strout are thrilled to announce that Weike Wang…
PEN America and the esteemed judges Chris Castellani, Geraldine Brooks, and Elizabeth Strout are thrilled to announce the 2018 PEN/Hemingway…
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…
The PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel honors a work of exceptional merit by an author who has not previously published…
Yaa Gyasi is the winner of the 2017 PEN/Hemingway Award.