Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

The PEN/Hemingway Award is awarded annually to a full-length novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Hemingway family and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/Society. It is administered by PEN America. Mary Hemingway, a member of PEN, founded the award in 1976 both to honor the memory of her husband and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction.

The winner is selected by a panel of three distinguished fiction writers and receives a cash prize of US$25,000.[1] Along with the winner, two finalists and two runners-up receive a Ucross Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation, a retreat for artists and writers on a 22,000 acre (89 km²) ranch on the high plains in Ucross, Wyoming. The award ceremony is held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

The award presentation is sponsored in part by the JFK Presidential Library.[2]

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners

1976 – Loyd Little for Parthian Shot
1977 – Renata Adler for Speedboat
1978 – Darcy O'Brien for A Way of Life, Like Any Other
1979 – Reuben Bercovitch for Hasen
1980 – Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
1981 – Joan Silber for Household Words
1982 – Marilynne Robinson for Housekeeping
1983 – Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
1984 – Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
1985 – Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
1986 – Alan V. Hewat for Lady's Time
1987 – Mary Ward Brown for Tongues of Flame
1988 – Lawrence Thornton for Imagining Argentina
1989 – Jane Hamilton for The Book of Ruth
1990 – Mark Richard for The Ice at the Bottom of the World
1991 – Bernard Cooper for Maps to Anywhere
1992 – Louis Begley for Wartime Lies
1993 – Edward P. Jones for Lost in the City
1994 – Dagoberto Gilb for The Magic of Blood
1995 – Susan Power for The Grass Dancer
1996 – Chang-Rae Lee for Native Speaker
1997 – Ha Jin for Ocean of Words
1998 – Charlotte Bacon for A Private State
1999 – Rosina Lippi for Homestead
2000 – Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies
2001 – Akhil Sharma for An Obedient Father
2002 – Justin Cronin for Mary and O'Neil
2003 – Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
2004 – Jennifer Haigh for Mrs. Kimble
2005 – Chris Abani for GraceLand
2006 – Yiyun Li for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007 – Ben Fountain for Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
2008 – Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End
2009 – Michael Dahlie for A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
2010 – Brigid Pasulka for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True[3]
2011 – Brando Skyhorse for The Madonnas of Echo Park
2012 – Teju Cole for Open City[4]
2013 – Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds
2014 – NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names[5][6]
2015 – Arna Bontemps Hemenway for Elegy on Kinderklavier[7]
2016 – Ottessa Moshfegh for Eileen[8]
2017 – Yaa Gyasi for Homegoing
2018 – Weike Wang for Chemistry
2019 – Tommy Orange for There There[9]
2020 – Ruchika Tomar for A Prayer for Travelers[10]

Notes

"PEN/Hemingway Award". Archived from the original on 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
"2012 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award Winner Announced". JFK Presidential Library. March 6, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
"Brigid Pasulka wins Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award". Chicago Tribune. March 8, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
LARRY ROHTER (March 8, 2012). "Hemingway/PEN Award Goes to Teju Cole". New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
Allan Kozinn (March 17, 2014). "Writer From Zimbabwe Wins PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novel". New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
Yvonne Zipp (March 18, 2014). "NoViolet Bulawayo wins prestigious Hemingway/PEN award". MLive.com. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
Jan Gardner (March 28, 2015). "A PEN/Hemingway for Hemenway". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
Mark Shanahan (March 16, 2016). "Newton's Ottessa Moshfegh wins 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
"Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There". PEN America. 2019-03-19. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
"Novelist Ruchika Tomar Wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her Debut Novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'". PEN America. 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.

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[1] "PEN/Hemingway Award". Archived from the original on 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2016-03-25.

[2] "2012 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award Winner Announced". JFK Presidential Library. March 6, 2012. Retrieved August 27, 2012.

[3] "Brigid Pasulka wins Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award". Chicago Tribune. March 8, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.

[4] LARRY ROHTER (March 8, 2012). "Hemingway/PEN Award Goes to Teju Cole". New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2012.

[5] Allan Kozinn (March 17, 2014). "Writer From Zimbabwe Wins PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novel". New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

[6] Yvonne Zipp (March 18, 2014). "NoViolet Bulawayo wins prestigious Hemingway/PEN award". MLive.com. Retrieved April 2, 2014.

[gardner-7] Jan Gardner (March 28, 2015). "A PEN/Hemingway for Hemenway". Boston Globe. Retrieved April 5, 2015.

[8] Mark Shanahan (March 16, 2016). "Newton's Ottessa Moshfegh wins 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 22, 2016.

[9] "Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There". PEN America. 2019-03-19. Retrieved 2019-03-20.

[10] "Novelist Ruchika Tomar Wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her Debut Novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'". PEN America. 2020-03-23. Retrieved 2020-03-23.