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Starting this week PEN America is kicking off its literary award season by announcing the longlist for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards.
SEE ALSO: Listen here: 10 great podcasts for book loversEach year PEN uses its Literary Awards program to honor the best and brightest in fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama and poetry. Past winners have included Ta-Nehisi Coates, who won the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Between The World and Mein 2016, and Paul Harding, who won the Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his novel Tinkersin 2010.
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This year, MashReads has partnered with PEN to announce the books longlisted for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards. From Dec. 5-9, we will be announcing new categories in PEN's longlist here on Mashable. Be sure to check back each day to see new nominations.
Award finalists will be announced by PEN on Jan. 18, 2017, and winners will be announced Feb. 22. (With the exception of the awards conferred for debut fiction and essay, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Nabokov Award, which will be announced live at PEN's award ceremony). And finally, the winners will be celebrated on March 27 at the PEN America Literary Award ceremony hosted at the New School in New York City.
Check out the longlisted books below.
PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Insurrectionsby Rion Amilcar Scott
We Show What We Have Learnedby Clare Beams
The Mothersby Brit Bennett
The Wangs vs. the Worldby Jade Chang
When Watched: Storiesby Leopoldine Core
Hideby Matthew Griffin
Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi
Tuesday Nights in 1980by Molly Prentiss
Hurt Peopleby Cote Smith
Wreck and Orderby Hannah Tennart-Moore
PEN/ E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The Genius of Birdsby Jennifer Ackerman
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousinsby Jonathan Balcombe
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secretsby Luke Dittrich
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Natureby Jordan Fisher Smith
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural Historyby Dan Flores
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflightby Julian Guthrie
Lab Girlby Hope Jahren
The Gene: An Intimate Historyby Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Glass Universeby Dava Sobel
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fishby Emily Voigt
PEN Open Book Award
(for an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2016)
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Blackassby A. Igoni Barrett
Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah
The Big Book of Exit Strategiesby Jamaal May
Behold the Dreamersby Imbolo Mbue
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yoursby Helen Oyeyemi
Lookby Solmaz Sharif
Problemsby Jade Sharma
Cannibalby Safiya Sinclair
Blackarceby Monica Youn
PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefine the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolutionby Jonathan Abrams
American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner’s Legendary Riseby Joe Drape
The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgersby Michael Leahy
Catching the Skyby Colten Moore with Keith O’Brien
Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAAby Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss
Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favreby Jeff Pearlman
Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Townby S.L. Price
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm Xby Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Fastpitch: The Untold History of the Softball and the Women Who Made the Gameby Erica Westly
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop and Street Basketball by Onaje X.O. Woodbine
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhoodby Belle Boggs
Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole
Against Everythingby Mark Greif
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and The Mindby Siri Hustvedt
The Girls in My Townby Angela Morales
Soul at the White Heatby Joyce Carol Oates
Becoming Earthby Eva Saulitis
Ethics in the Real Worldby Peter Singer
Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Changeby Andrew Solomon
Hungry Heartby Jennifer Weiner
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Jean Cocteau: A Lifeby Claude Arnaud, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin & Charlotte Mandell
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Centuryby Jerome Charyn
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Lifeby Ruth Franklin
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heartby Claire Harman
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionaryby Joe Jackson
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copleyby Jane Kamensky
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographerby Arthur Lubow
Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and Whiteby Michael Tisserand
American Luthier: The Art and Science of the Violinby Quincy Whitney
Louise Nevelsonby Laurie Wilson
PEN Translation Prize
(for literary prose)
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Confessionsby Rabee Jaber, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
The Fox Was Ever the Hunterby Herta Muller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Wasby Sjón, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Between Life and Deathby Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav
One Hundred and Twenty-One Daysby Michèle Audin, translated from the French by Christiana Hills
Angel of Oblivionby Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis
Justineby Iben Mondrup, translated from the Danish by Kerri A. Pierce
The Explosion Chroniclesby Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas
The Vegetarianby Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith
Limbo Beirutby Hilal Chouman, translated from the Arabic by Anna Ziajka Stanton
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Pearl: A New Verse Translation, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage
Abyssby Ya Hsien, translated from the Chinese by John Balcom
Voronezh Notebooksby Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Andrew Davis
Building the Barricadeby Anna Swir, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk
Algaraviasby Waly Salomao, translated from the Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Preludes and Fuguesby Emmanuel Moses, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker
Tale of Ise, translated from the Japanese by Peter MacMillan
In Praise of Defeat: Poemsby Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson Smith
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poemsby Dulce Maria Loynaz, translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor
Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems from Orit Gidali, translated from the Hebrew by Marcela Sulak
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Drinking in America: Our Secret Historyby Susan Cheever
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityby Matthew Desmond
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Americaby Nancy Isenberg
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Helpby Larissa MacFarquhar
The Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in Americaby Patrick Phillips
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemicby Sam Quinones
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in Americaby Andrés Reséndez
The Train to the Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War IIby Jan Jarboe Russell
Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iranby Laura Secor
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorshipby Anjan Sundaram
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