2023 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists

2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist

My Pinup By Hilton Als Cover Image
Acting Class By Nick Drnaso Cover Image
If I Survive You By Jonathan Escoffery Cover Image
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2023 PEN Open Book Award Longlist

Golden Ax (Penguin Poets) By Rio Cortez Cover Image
Shutter By Ramona Emerson Cover Image
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin By Hafizah Augustus Geter Cover Image
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2023 PEN Prize for Debut Short Stories Longlist

Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories By Sindya Bhanoo Cover Image
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Rainbow Rainbow: Stories By Lydia Conklin Cover Image
Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? By Zein El-Amine Cover Image
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2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlist

A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel By Melissa Chadburn Cover Image
The School for Good Mothers: A Novel By Jessamine Chan Cover Image
Activities of Daily Living: A Novel By Lisa Hsiao Chen Cover Image
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2023 PEN Award for Poetry Longlist

Smoking the Bible By Chris Abani Cover Image
[To] the Last [Be] Human By Jorie Graham, Robert MacFarlane (Introduction by) Cover Image
Maafa By Harmony Holiday Cover Image
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2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Longlist

The Loose Pearl By Paula Ilabaca Núñez, Daniel Borzutzky (Translator) Cover Image
No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace By Jean D'Amérique, Conor Bracken (Translator) Cover Image
The Threshold: Poems By Iman Mersal, Robyn Creswell (Translated by) Cover Image
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2023 PEN Translation Prize Longlist

All Your Children, Scattered By Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Alison Anderson (Translator) Cover Image
The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel By Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (Translated by) Cover Image
Jawbone By Mónica Ojeda, Sarah Booker (Translator) Cover Image
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2023 PEN Art of the Essay Award Longlist

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood By Jessi Klein Cover Image
Translating Myself and Others By Jhumpa Lahiri Cover Image
A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home By Frances Mayes Cover Image
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2023 PEN Literary Science Writing Award Longlist

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist By Frans de Waal Cover Image
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage By Rachel E. Gross Cover Image
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers By Erica Hannickel Cover Image
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2023 PEN Award for Biography Longlist

An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville By Reza Aslan Cover Image
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality By Tomiko Brown-Nagin Cover Image
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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm By Dan Charnas Cover Image
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2023 PEN Award for Nonfiction Longlist

The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees By Matthieu Aikins Cover Image
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods By Lyndsie Bourgon Cover Image
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It By Will Bunch Cover Image
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