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2016 PEN Literary Award Winners
Browse the 2016 PEN Literary Award winners and nominees by category. Each category starts with the winner, followed by nominees and other recognized titles.
Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction category.
Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection category.
Winner
In the Country: Stories
Children/Young Adult
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Children/Young Adult category.
Winner
The Porcupine of Truth
Fiction
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Fiction category.
Winner
See How Small
Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Hemingway Award: Debut Fiction category.
Winner
Eileen
Finalist
In the Country: Stories
Finalist
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
Finalist
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
Finalist
The Sympathizer
Finalist
The Turner House
Translation
Winner and nominees for the 2016 PEN Literary Award Translation category.
Finalist
The Blizzard
Finalist
Complete Stories
Finalist
The Hollow Heart
Finalist
The Physics of Sorrow
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Bingham Prize: Debut Story Collection
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Bellwether Prize: Socially Engaged Fiction
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Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult
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R. Bingham Fellowship
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First Fiction
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Art of the Essay
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First Nonfiction
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