Our Longlisters for the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards
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PEN America has announced the longlists for its 2022 Literary Awards in the categories of debut fiction, diversity, nonfiction, essay, biography, poetry, science writing, and translation, plus the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Our longlisted titles published by Penguin Random House imprints and Penguin Random House Publisher Services client publishers are presented below.
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
- THE PRESIDENT AND THE FROG by Carolina De Robertis (Knopf)
- PALMARES by Gayl Jones (Beacon Press, a PRHPS client publisher)
- SEEK YOU: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon)
- HARROW by Joy Williams (Knopf)
- MUTINY by Phillip B. Williams (Penguin Books)
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
- INVISIBLE CHILD: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott (Random House)
- ALL THAT SHE CARRIED: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family’s Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Random House)
- EMPIRE OF PAIN: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
- FACING THE MOUNTAIN: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown (Viking)
- THE GAMBLER WIFE: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew D. Kaufman (Riverhead Books)
- ORWELL’S ROSES by Rebecca Solnit (Viking)
- LADY BIRD JOHNSON: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig (Random House)
PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
- DETRANSITION, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters (One World)
- NIGHTBITCH: A Novel by Rachel Yoder (Doubleday)
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
- SKINSHIP: Stories by Yoon Choi (Knopf)
- THE ROCK EATERS: Stories by Brenda Peynado, (Penguin Books)
- OBJECTS OF DESIRE: Stories by Clare Sestanovich (Knopf)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
- A LITTLE DEVIL IN AMERICA: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
- NINE NASTY WORDS: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter (Avery)
- LANGUAGES OF TRUTH by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
- A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders (Random House)
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
- LIFE’S EDGE: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer (Dutton Books)
PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry
- MUTINY by Phillip B. Williams (Penguin Books)
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
- EXHAUSTED ON THE CROSS by Najwan Darwish (New York Review Books, a PRHPS client publisher) Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
To view the complete longlist for 2022 PEN America Literary Awards, click here.