The 2026 Literary PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony will be held on March 31, 2026 at the Town Hall in New York City.
PEN America is honored to announce the Finalists for the 2026 Literary Awards. The awards are judged by panels of esteemed authors, editors, translators, and critics. The 2026 Literary Awards will hand out almost $350,000 to writers and translators for achievements during the calendar year 2025.
And the finalists are…
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award ($75,000)
The Devil Is a Southpaw, Brandon Hobson (HarperCollins)
Things in Nature Merely Grow, Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide, Cannupa Hanska Luger (Ayin Press)
Into the Hush, Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)
The Pelican Child, Joy Williams (Penguin Random House)
PEN Open Book Award ($10,000)
The Devil Three Times, Rickey Fayne (Hachette Book Group)
Ibis, Justin Haynes (Abrams)
Natural History, Brandon Kilbourne (Graywolf Press)
Medicine River, Mary Annette Pember (Penguin Random House)
No Rhododendron, Samyak Shertok (University of Pittsburgh Press)
About PEN America
Founded in 1922, PEN America is the largest of the more than 100 centers worldwide that make up the PEN International network. PEN America works to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others.
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