Writers from all over the world came together to celebrate books Monday night at the 2017 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.
The Boobwatch 1 (1996)ceremony is an annual celebration of the best and most impactful fiction, nonfiction, essays, plays and poems published throughout the year.
SEE ALSO: Chelsea Clinton shares 4 inspiring tips for young activists in the Trump eraThis year's show was hosted by comedian, actor and producer Aasif Mandvi and honored a wide range of literature, from Evicted, Matthew Desmond's acclaimed investigation of poverty in America, to What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a fable-inspired short story collection by Helen Oyeyemi.
You can watch the full ceremony above. Check out the list of winners below.
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityby Matthew Desmond
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards
Master American Dramatist: Suzan-Lori Parks
American Playwright in Mid-Career: Tarell Alvin McCraney
Emerging Ameican Playwright: Thomas Bradshaw
PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement by Aleksandar Hemon
PEN Open Book Award
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours byHelen Oyeyemi
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary byJoe Jackson
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Bill Nack
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
The Verging Cities by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Finding a Home at the End of the World by Phillippe Diederich
PEN Translation Prize
Angel of Oblivionby Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Pearl: A New Verse Translationby The Pearl Poet, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage
PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing
Michael Archer and Joel Whitney for Guernica
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
“Galina” by Angela Ajayi “The Handler” by Amber Caron “Tell Me, Please” by Emily Chammah “The Asphodel Meadow” by Jim Cole “Solee” by Hana Kim “The Manual Alphabet” by Samuel Clare Knights “Goldhawk” by Katherine Magyarody “A Modern Marriage” by Grace Oluseyi “1,000-Year-Old Ghosts” by Laura Chow Reeve “State Facts for the New Age” by Amy Sauber “A Message” by Ruth Serven “Edwin Chase of Nantucket” by Ben Shattuck
PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ($2,000-$4,000) & PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature
Floral Mutterby YA Shi (哑石) translated from the Chinese by Nick AdmussenThe Cowards Who Looked to the Skyby Misumi Kubo, translated from the Japenese by Polly BartonThe Palimpsestsby Aleksandra Lun, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer Felix Austriaby Sophia Andrukhovych, translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky Raoul Schrott: Selected Poems, translated from the German by Iain GalbraithEdinburgh Notebookby Valerie Mejer Caso, translated from the Spanish by Michelle Gil-MonteroThe Remainderby Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from the Spanish by Sophie HughesThirteen Months of Sunrisesby Rania Mamoun, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth JaquetteThe Arabby Pooneh Rohi, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson I Didn’t Talkby Beatriz Bracher, translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris A Paradeby Nhã Thuyên, translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin ReesWûfby Kemal Varol, translated from the Turkish by Dayla Rogers In Your Nameby Mauro Covacich, translated from the Italian by Christopher Tamigi There’s a Carnival Todayby Indra Bahadur Rai, translated from the Nepali by Manjushree Thapa This Land That Is Like Youby Tobie Nathan, translated from the French by Joyce Zonana
(The following awards will be announced live at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony)
PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
Ali Ahmad Said Esber (also known as Adonis)
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Winner: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Betweenby Hisham Matar
Finalist:Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole
Finalist:OlioTyehimba Jess
Finalist:Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Rightby Jane Mayer
Finalist:The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Winner: Insurrectionsby Rion Amilcar Scott
Finalist:We Show What We Have Learnedby Clare Beams
Finalist:The Mothersby Brit Bennett
Finalist:Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi
Finalist:Hurt Peopleby Cote Smith
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Winner: The Girls in My Townby Angela Morales
Finalist:The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine and Motherhoodby Belle Boggs
Finalist:Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole
Finalist:A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mindby Siri Hustvedt
Finalist:Becoming Earthby Eva Saulitis
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