2015 PEN Literary Awards Longlist

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Yesterday the PEN American Center announced the longlists for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards and they include 17(!) Macmillan titles:

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
THE DOG by Jack Livings
THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS by TaraShea Nesbitt

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? by Michael Hofmann
THE EMPATHY EXAMS by Leslie Jamison

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION by Elizabeth Kolbert
THE COPERNICUS COMPLEX by Caleb Scharf

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY by Jonathan M. Katz
THE BILL OF THE CENTURY by Clay Risen
THE IMPULSE SOCIETY by Paul Roberts
A CHANCE TO WIN by Jonathan Schuppe

PEN Open Book Award (For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2014)
CITIZEN: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
THE QUEEN’S BED by Anna Whitelock

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
BLACK NOON: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 by Art Garner

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD by Eliza Griswold
BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD by Paul Celan

PEN Translation Prize
THE SYMMETRY TEACHER by Andrei Bitov
THE MAN WHO LOVED DOGS by Leonardo Padura

The shortlists will be released on April 15, and the winners will be announced on May 13. To see the full list of longlists, click here to view.

Congrats to the nominees!

 

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