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Read the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners
by Taylor Follett
The 2018 PEN American Literary Award Winners were announced on February 20th in PEN America’s 55th annual award ceremony. The PEN Awards pride themselves in their long history of bestowing awards to influential and diverse voices in literature, the grants they are able to award to well-deserving authors, and most importantly, the incredible books they choose to honor.
As a rule, the books selected by the PEN judges make wonderful reads. This year’s winners are no exception:
Layli Long Soldier
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Jenny Zhang
Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Alexis Okeowo
Pen Open Book Award
Ursula K. Le Guin
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Magda Szabó, trans. by Len Rix
PEN Translation Prize
Lindsey Fitzharris
PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
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