PEN America has released longlists for its 2019 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators whose exceptional literary works were published in 2018. Finalists will be announced in January, and winners will be revealed at the Literary Awards Ceremony on February 26 in New York. See the longlists here.
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The longlist has been unveiled for the £4,000 (about $5,065) JQ Wingate Literary Prize, which honors "the best book, fiction or nonfiction, to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader." A shortlist will be announced mid-January and the winner named February 25. The longlisted titles are:
1947: When Now Begins by Elisabeth Asbrink, translated by Fiona Graham
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
No Place to Lay One's Head by Françoise Frenkel, translated by Stephanie Smee
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Evacuation by Raphael Jerusalmy, translated by Penny Hueston
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbour by Yossi Klein Halevi
If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
A Weekend in New York by Benjamin Markovits
Memento Park by Mark Sarvas
We Are Gathered by Jamie Weisman
Deposition 1940-1944 by Leon Werth, edited and translated by David Ball