The Return by Hisham Matar (Penguin Random House) won the inaugural $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award during the PEN America Literary Awards ceremony Monday night in New York City. Other award winners announced at the event included:
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature ($50,000): Adonis
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott (University Press of Kentucky)
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000): The Girls in My Town by Angela Morales (University of New Mexico Press)
A complete list of 2017 winners is available here.
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The fiction and poetry longlists have been released for this year's Best Translated Book Award, sponsored by Three Percent and honoring "the best original works of international fiction and poetry published in the U.S. during the previous year." The longlists include books from 24 countries, writing in 15 languages, and published by 25 presses. Finalists for both categories will be announced April 18, with the winners named May 4.
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Twelve books for adults and young people will be celebrated May 16 at the 68th annual Christopher Awards, which are presented to authors and illustrators--as well as writers, producers and directors--whose work "affirms the highest values of the human spirit." This year's winning titles are:
Adults
Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption & an Unlikely Family by Lisa Fen (Harper Wave)
The Hundred Story Home: A Journey of Homelessness, Hope & Healing by Kathy Izard (Grace Press)
Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips & My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations by Ron Fournier (Harmony Books)
Operating on Faith: A Painfully True Love Story by Matt Weber (Loyola Press)
Pint-Sized Prophets: Inspirational Moments That Taught Me We Are All Born to Be Healers by Dr. Chuck Dietzen (Advantage Publishing)
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino (Crown Archetype)
Young People
Baby Wren and the Great Gift by Sally Lloyd-Jones, illustrated by Jen Corace (Preschool & up, Zonderkidz/HarperCollins Christian Publishing)
What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Mae Besom (Kindergarten & up, Compendium)
Ida, Always by Caron Levis, illustrated by Charles Santoso (6 & up, Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Ada's Violin by Susan Hood, illustrated by Sally Wern Comport (8 & up, S&S Books for Young Readers)
Soar by Joan Bauer (10 & up, Viking/Penguin Young Readers Group)
Unbound by Ann E. Burg (YA, Scholastic)