The PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel 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

Year Author Title Ref.
1976 Loyd Little Parthian Shot
1977 Renata Adler Speedboat
1978 Darcy O'Brien A Way of Life, Like Any Other
1979 Reuben Bercovitch Hasen
1980 Alan Saperstein Mom Kills Kids and Self
1981 Joan Silber Household Words
1982 Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
1983 Bobbie Ann Mason Shiloh and Other Stories
1984 Joan Chase During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
1985 Josephine Humphreys Dreams of Sleep
1986 Alan V. Hewat Lady's Time
1987 Mary Ward Brown Tongues of Flame
1988 Lawrence Thornton Imagining Argentina
1989 Jane Hamilton The Book of Ruth
1990 Mark Richard The Ice at the Bottom of the World
1991 Bernard Cooper Maps to Anywhere
1992 Louis Begley Wartime Lies
1993 Edward P. Jones Lost in the City
1994 Dagoberto Gilb The Magic of Blood
1995 Susan Power The Grass Dancer
1996 Chang-Rae Lee Native Speaker
1997 Ha Jin Ocean of Words
1998 Charlotte Bacon A Private State
1999 Rosina Lippi Homestead
2000 Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies
2001 Akhil Sharma An Obedient Father
2002 Justin Cronin Mary and O'Neil
2003 Gabriel Brownstein The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W
2004 Jennifer Haigh Mrs. Kimble
2005 Chris Abani GraceLand
2006 Yiyun Li A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2007 Ben Fountain Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
2008 Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End
2009 Michael Dahlie A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
2010 Brigid Pasulka A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True [3]
2011 Brando Skyhorse The Madonnas of Echo Park
2012 Teju Cole Open City [4]
2013 Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names [5][6]
2015 Arna Bontemps Hemenway Elegy on Kinderklavier [7]
2016 Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen [8]
2017 Yaa Gyasi Homegoing [9]
2018 Weike Wang Chemistry
2019 Tommy Orange There There [10]
2020 Ruchika Tomar A Prayer for Travelers [11]
2021 Kawai Strong Washburn Sharks in the Time of Saviors [12]
2022 Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby: A Novel [13]
2023 Oscar Hokeah Calling for a Blanket Dance [14][15]

Notes

  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. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved August 27, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Brigid Pasulka wins Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award". Chicago Tribune. March 8, 2012. Archived from the original on March 1, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ LARRY ROHTER (March 8, 2012). "Hemingway/PEN Award Goes to Teju Cole". New York Times. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  5. ↑ Allan Kozinn (March 17, 2014). "Writer From Zimbabwe Wins PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novel". New York Times. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Yvonne Zipp (March 18, 2014). "NoViolet Bulawayo wins prestigious Hemingway/PEN award". MLive.com. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ Jan Gardner (March 28, 2015). "A PEN/Hemingway for Hemenway". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ Mark Shanahan (March 16, 2016). "Newton's Ottessa Moshfegh wins 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award". Boston Globe. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There". PEN America. 2019-03-19. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  10. ↑ "Breakout Novelist Tommy Orange Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award for There There". PEN America. 2019-03-19. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  11. ↑ "Novelist Ruchika Tomar Wins 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for her Debut Novel 'A Prayer for Travelers'". PEN America. 2020-03-23. Archived from the original on 2020-08-04. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  12. ↑ "Barbara Ehrenreich among winners of PEN literary awards". ABC News. The Associated Press. April 9, 2021. Archived from the original on January 27, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  13. ↑ Smith, Eliza (March 1, 2022). "Here are the winners of the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards". Literary Hub. Archived from the original on March 3, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2022.
  14. ↑ Schaub, Michael (2023-03-03). "PEN Award Winners Announced". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  15. ↑ "PEN America Literary Award Winners Celebrated". Shelf Awareness. 2023-03-06. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
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