Hemingway Foundation PEN Award
The Hemingway Foundation PEN Award is presented annually to a novel or book of short stories by a US author who has not previously published any fiction . The literary prize is named after Ernest Hemingway and is financially supported by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
Structures
The Hemingway Society (since 1987) and the New England PEN are operationally responsible for organizing the literary prize. The widow Mary Hemingway, who was a member of the PEN, donated the prize in 1976 to commemorate her husband and to honor outstanding prose first works in fiction.
The winners are selected by a changing jury made up of three well-known writers. He receives $ 8,000 in prize money. Together with the winner, two finalists and two runners-up will receive a residency grant from the Ucross Residency Fellowship from the Ucross Foundation. This artist home for artists and writers is a 89 km² ranch in Ucross , Wyoming . The awards ceremony takes place regularly in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library building in Boston , Massachusetts .
In addition, the winner will receive a one-week residency invitation from the University of Idaho MFA Creative Writing Program .
- Winner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award
- 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 rabbits
- 1980: Alan Saperstein for Mom Kills Kids and Self
- 1981: Joan Silber for Household Words
- 1982: Marilynne Robinson for housekeeping , German title: Haus ohne Halt
- 1983: Bobbie Ann Mason for Shiloh and Other Stories
- 1984: Joan Chase for During the Reign of the Queen of Sheba
- 1985: Josephine Humphreys for Dreams of Sleep
- 1986: Alan V. Hewar 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 speakers
- 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
- 2011: Brando Skyhorse for The Madonnas of Echo Park
- 2012: Teju Cole for Open City
- 2013: Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds
- 2014: NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names
- 2015: Arna Bontemps Hemenway for Elegy on Kinderklavier
- 2016: Ottessa Moshfegh for Eileen
- 2017: Yaa Gyasi for homegoing
- 2018: Weike Wang for Chemistry
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pen-ne.org/about-pen-ne.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/awards/awards.pperl?award=Hemingway+Foundation/PEN+Award+for+First+Fiction
- ↑ http://www.awardsandhonors.com/award/hemingway_foundationpen_award.html
- ↑ List of award winners on the JFK Library Foundation website
- ↑ http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/partnerships/hemingway_pen_award.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
