Book award season is upon us!
On Tuesday, PEN America announced the books shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards. The ceremony honors the best in new literature, highlighting fiction, non-fiction, poetry and translation.
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Finalists include Ta-Nehisi Coates' critically acclaimed Between the World and Me and Angela Flournoy's The Turner House, which also earned her a spot on the National Book Foundation's 2015 5 Under 35 honoree list.
The winners of the PEN Literary Awards won't be announced until the full ceremony on April 11. In the meantime, check out the shortlist of finalists below.
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor by Julie Iromuanya
The Sympathizer: A Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness by Jennifer Tseng
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
After the Tall Timber: Collected Non-Fiction by Renata Adler
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Quarry by Susan Howe
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne Jr.
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star by Tom Clynes
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World by Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson by Kent Babb
The Domino Diaries: My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba by Brin-Jonathan Butler
The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth
Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty by Bengie Molina with Joan Ryan
The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season by Barry Svrluga
PEN Open Book Award
Chord by Rick Barot
Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Forest Primeval: Poems by Vievee Francis
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
Michelle Obama: A Life by Peter Slevin
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
The School of Solitude: Collected Poems by Luis Hernández translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist
The Late Poems of Wang An-shih, translated from the Chinese by David Hinton
Rilke Shake by Angélica Freitas, translated from the Portuguese by Hilary Kaplan
I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky, translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu
PEN Translation Prize
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson
The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated from the Russian by Oliver Ready
The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel
Hollow Heart by Viola Di Grado, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar