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'Owls' and 'Sharks' lead the list of Minnesota Book Award winners Authors Jonathan C. Slaght and Kawai Strong Washburn were among those honored in a virtual celebration.  April 29, 2021 — 8:01pm Text size Copy shortlink: The Minnesota Book Awards honored writers both established and emerging Thursday night in their second consecutive virtual awards ceremony. Here's the full list of winners: Novel & short story: "Sharks in the Time of Saviors," by Washburn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Seven-year-old Noa falls overboard and is care...

The annual presentation of PEN America’s literary awards and career achievement honors was produced digitally for a second year. A collage of some 55 finalists in the PEN America 2021 Literary Awards program. Image: PEN America Nossel: ‘This Year of Tumult and Torment’ In our previews of the PEN America Literary Award finalists and the program’s Career Achievement Prize recipients, Publishing Perspectives readers looked at one of the more complex annual presentations of a broad range of disparate awards. Funded by many generous  donors and presented on varying schedules, the program...

Gay, Wang, Ehrenreich, Hartman Win at 2021 PEN Lit Awards By Calvin Reid | Apr 08, 2021 The PEN Literary Awards, presented this year in a virtual ceremony, awarded poet Ross Gay the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for Be Holding: A Poem (University of Pittsburgh), a book-length lyrical tribute to the great basketball player Julius Erving and much more. Michael X. Wang’s Further News of Defeat: Stories won the $25,000 PEN/Bingham Short Story Prize, and Barbara Ehrenreich won the $15,000 PEN/Essay Award for her career-spanning collection In addition, Saidiya Hartma...

Winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Announced This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. The winners of the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards were announced in their first-ever online ceremony since the Awards began 57 years ago. It was hosted by Kara Young and featured many guest appearances, including Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis. In total, $380,000 in prizes were awarded to a diverse range of writers, translators, poets, editors, journalists, and others. Although they were not able to host the usual festivities, the ...

From these finalists for the PEN America Literary Awards, winners will be announced on April 8 and receive a total of more than US$380,000. Dining tents in New York City’s Bryant Park, February 4. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti From 1,850 Submissions, 55 Finalists A total of 55 titles in 11 categories have been named today (February 10) as finalists in the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards. They now are in contention for an aggregate purse of more than US$380,000. PEN America, of course, is the US affiliate chapter of PEN International. An important and notably serious program amon...