PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is awarded by the PEN America to honor a "a book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact". With an award of $75,000 it is one of the richest prizes given by the PEN American Center. It was first award in 2017.
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[1]
Winners and finalists
Winner = 
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- 2017 [3]
Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between[4]- Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things
- Tyehimba Jess, Olio
- Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
- 2018[5]
- Layli Long Soldier, Whereas[6][7]
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
- Hari Kunzru, White Tears
- Victor LaValle, The Changeling
- Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
- 2019[8]
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black
- Ada Limón, The Carrying: Poems
- José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal
- Richard Powers, ''The Overstory'': A Novel
- Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
- 2020[9]
- Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End[10]
- Anne Boyer, The Undying
- Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic: Poems
- Rion Amilcar Scott, The World Doesn’t Require You
- Chris Ware, Rusty Brown
References
- ^ Alfred Bendixen (2005). "Literary Prizes and Awards". The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 689.
- ^ "Past Winners". PEN American Center. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ Hillel Italie (January 18, 2017). "Colson Whitehead is a finalist for $75,000 PEN America award". AP News. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ "2017 Jean Stein Winner". PEN American Center. March 28, 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ Porter Anderson (January 31, 2018). "Industry Notes: PEN America's Finalists". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ John Maher (February 21, 2018). "Long Soldier, Zhang, Le Guin Win At 2018 PEN Literary Awards". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ "The 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. February 20, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ "Announcing the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
- ^ "PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalists Include Anne Boyer and Ilya Kaminsky". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Yiyun Li receives PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for originality, merit and impact". Princeton University. March 3, 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.