PEN Literary Award - Open Book

Awards List

2017

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
(Winner)
Helen Oyeyemi

2015

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

2014

Cowboys and East Indians: Stories
(Winner)
Nina McConigley

2013

Gun Dealers' Daughter
(Winner)
Gina Apostol

2012

Oil on Water
(Runner-Up)
Helon Habila

2011

Serious Men
(Winner)
Manu Joseph

2009

Say You're One of Them
(Winner)
Uwem Akpan

Changing
(Winner)
Lily Hoang

2008

The Perfect Man
(Winner)
Naeem Murr

Transparency
(Winner)
Frances Hwang

Song for Night
(Winner)
Chris Abani

Tales of the Out & the Gone
(Winner)
Amiri Baraka

2007

Half of a Yellow Sun
(Winner)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006

Dancing in the Dark
(Winner)
Caryl Phillips

2005

Inheritance
(Winner)
Lan Samantha Chang

Autopsy of an Engine: And Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
(Winner)
Lolita Hernandez

2004

The Interpreter
(Winner)
Suki Kim

West of the Jordan
(Winner)
Laila Halaby

Knee-Deep in Wonder
(Winner)
April Reynolds

2002

Slapboxing with Jesus
(Winner)
Victor Lavalle

Song of the Water Saints
(Winner)
Nelly Rosario

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

Award Years

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

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