Congratulations to the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards winners

Last night's PEN America Literary Awards honored a number of authors for individual works or their lifetime efforts. 

They include:

• PEN/Jean Stein Book Award: Where Reasons End, by Yiyun Li.

• PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection: Last of Her Name, by Mimi Lok.

• PEN Open Book Award: The Grave on the Wall, by Brandon Shimoda.

• PEN Translation Prize: The Ten Loves of Nishino, written by Hiromi Kawakami and translated by Allison Markin Powell.

• PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: The Winter Garden Photograph, written by Reina María Rodríguez and translated by Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen.

• PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay: Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape, by Deborah Fleming.

• PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall.

• PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Service Writing Award: Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, by Frans de Waal.

• PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Prize for Paraguayan Literature: Pieles de Papel, by Liz Haedo.

• PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature: M. NourbeSe Philip

• PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award: Tanya Barfield

• PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry: Rigoberto González

• PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award: Tom Stoppard

PEN America’s mission is to protect free expression worldwide and unite writers and their allies to further that goal.

You can learn about the organization, as well as see a complete list of prize winners and what the judges said about them, on PEN America’s website.

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