The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Shortlist: A Salute
PEN America has announced the finalists for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. With so many great books, authors, and translators included, we’ve put together this roundup of WLT’s coverage of the nominated works and associated writers and translators. Kudos to all who were recognized!
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
A review of The Carrying, by Ada Limón
A review of The Overstory, by Richard Powers
PEN Translation Prize
A brief note on Nevada Days, by Bernardo Atxaga
A review of Disoriental, by Négar Djavadi
The Stone Building and Other Places, by Aslı Erdoğan, trans. Sevinç Türkkan
- An interview with Aslı Erdoğan
- A review of The Stone Building
A recommendation about Love, by Hanne Ørstavik
A nota bene about Trick, by Domenico Starnone
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
0A review of Today / Hoy, by Juan Gelman, trans. Lisa Rose Bradford, plus a short essay by Lisa Rose Bradford
An editor’s pick of Negative Space, by Luljeta Lleshanaku, trans. Ani Gjika
Two poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku
Congratulations as well to Emma Ramadan, whose translation of Ahmed Bouanani’s “The Illiterate Man” appeared in the November 2015 issue of WLT
PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non-Fiction
An excerpt from The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq, by Dunya Mikhail
A review of The Beekeeper
Once again, congratulations to all the shortlisted writers and translators!
