Lit: PEN America Finalists for 2019 Announced

PEN America is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Our awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning writers, editors, booksellers, and critics. Learn about the PEN America Literary Awards judges here.

This year’s awards will confer more than $370,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2018. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essays, science writing, sports writing, translation, and more, these shortlisted books are bound to help fill your 2019 TBR.

Thanks to our partnership with Hudson Booksellers, we are pleased to offer a 25 percent discount on all PEN America Literary Award finalist and semi-finalist titles on HudsonBooksellers.com. Code: PEN19

Stay tuned for further announcements about winners of the following awards: PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature, PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry, PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, PEN/Pels Theater Award, PEN/Magid Award for Excellence in Editing, PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award.

 PEN America Finalists

PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD ($75,000)

For a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact.

Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner Books)
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The Carrying: Poems, Ada Limón (Milkweed Editions)
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Citizen Illegal, José Olivarez (Haymarket Books)
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The Overstory: A Novel, Richard Powers (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover (Random House)
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