
The 2019 PEN Literary Awards longlist includes 14 Macmillan titles! WOO HOO!
PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
A LUCKY MAN: Stories by Jamel Brinkley
HALF GODS by Akil Kumarasamy
PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD
BROTHER by David Chariandy
EYE LEVEL: Poems by Jenny Xie
PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
NEVADA DAYS by Bernardo Atxaga
CODEX 1962: A Trilogy by Sjón
PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION
ASYMMETRY: Poems by Adam Zagajewski
PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
WE CAN’T BREATHE: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim
IMPOSSIBLE OWLS: Essays by Brian Phillips
PEN/BOGRAD WELD PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
INVISIBLE: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter
PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION
ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
THE FIELD OF BLOOD: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING
THE CIRCUIT: A Tennis Odyssey by Rowan Ricardo Phillips