2015 PEN Literary Award

Awards List

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

The Dog: Stories
(Winner)
Jack Livings

Children/Young Adult

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
(Winner)
Leslye Walton

Fiction

Bridge
(Winner)
Robert Thomas

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Elegy on Kinderklavier
(Winner)
Arna Bontemps Hemenway

Translation

Baboon
(Winner)
Naja Marie Aidt

Children/Young Adult

Girls Like Us
(Finalist)
Gail Giles

The Witch's Boy
(Finalist)
Kelly Barnhill

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
(Finalist)
Isabel Quintero

Creative Nonfiction

American Canyon
(Finalist)
Amarnath Ravva

Fiction

Thunderstruck & Other Stories
(Finalist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Fourth of July Creek
(Finalist)
Smith Henderson

Love Me Back
(Finalist)
Merritt Tierce

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

The UnAmericans: Stories
(Finalist)
Molly Antopol

Redeployment
(Finalist)
Phil Klay

Ruby
(Finalist)
Cynthia Bond

The Dog: Stories
(Finalist)
Jack Livings

Love Me Back
(Finalist)
Merritt Tierce

Open Book

An Unnecessary Woman
(Finalist)
Rabih Alameddine

Every Day Is for the Thief
(Finalist)
Teju Cole

An Untamed State
(Finalist)
Roxane Gay

The City Son
(Finalist)
Samrat Upadhyay

Translation

Falling Out of Time
(Finalist)
David Grossman

A Corner of the World
(Finalist)
Mylene Fernandez Pintado

Award Categories

Art of the Essay

Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction

Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection

Children's Illustrated

Children's Literature

Children/Young Adult

Creative Nonfiction

Drama

Fiction

First Fiction

First Nonfiction

Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction

Kroll Award: Illustrated Children's Book

Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult

Open Book

Picture Book

R. Bingham Fellowship

Translation

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