PEN America is thrilled to announce the longlists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards.
The finalists for all book awards will be announced in January 2019. The winners will be celebrated at the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on February 26 at the NYU Skirball Center in NYC.
Many Civitellians are on the longlist including…
Jenny Xie (CRF 2018)’s “Eyelevel,” (Graywolf Press) for the PEN Open Book Award ($5,000): For an exceptional work of literature by an author of color.
Alexander Chee (CRF 2011)’s “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000): For a book of essays that exemplifies the essay form.
Eliza Griswold (CRF 2011)’s “Amity and Prosperity, (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000): For a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective.
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Andrea Barnet (CG 2010 and current CRF Advisory Council Member) for “Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World,” (Ecco) is on the list for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000): For a distinguished biography published in the United States.
Congratulations!