2018 PEN Literary Awards Nominees (& Winners!)

UPDATE 2/21/18: Congratulations to our 2018 PEN Literary Award winners:

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Edmund White (THE UNPUNISHED VICE)

The PEN American Center announced the nominees for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards and they include these Macmillan titles:

Shortlisted (full list)

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado

PEN Open Book Award (For an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2017)
LESSONS ON EXPULSION: Poems by Erika L. Sanchez

PEN Translation Prize
THE IMPOSSIBLE FAIRY TALE by Han Yujoo

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
FLANEUSE: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
YOU SAY TO BRICK: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

Longlisted (full list)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY by Cherise Wolas

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
THE ART OF DEATH: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
THE TRIALS OF A SCOLD: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall by Jeff Biggers
HOUSMAN COUNTRY: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker

The winners will be announced on February 20.

Congrats to the nominees!