Member Awards and Achievements PEN America Literary Awards Finalists January 19, 2017 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email The 2017 PEN America Literary Awards finalists were announced yesterday. Brit Bennett’s The Mothers was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life and Joe Jackson’s Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary were finalists for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Tess Lewis’s translation of Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize. Members who were longlisted can be found here. For the complete list of finalists, visit PEN’s website.
