PEN/Hemingway Award
The PEN/Hemingway Award honors an outstanding debut novel by an American author. Established in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, it recognizes exceptional first works of fiction and often highlights emerging voices that go on to shape contemporary literature.
- Early Sobrieties
- Countries of Origin
- Calling for a Blanket Dance
- Detransition, Baby
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors
- A Prayer for Travelers
- There There
- Chemistry
- Homegoing
- Eileen
- Elegy on Kinderklavier
- We Need New Names
- The Yellow Birds
- Open City
- The Madonnas of Echo Park
- A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
- Then We Came to the End
- Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
- GraceLand
- Mrs. Kimble
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. W
- Mary and O’Neil
- An Obedient Father
- Interpreter of Maladies
- Homestead
- A Private State
- Ocean of Words
- Native Speaker
- The Grass Dancer
- The Magic of Blood
- Lost in the City
- Wartime Lies
- Maps to Anywhere
- The Ice at the Bottom of the World
- The Book of Ruth
- Imagining Argentina
- Tongues of Flame
- Lady's Time
- Dreams of Sleep
- During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
- Shiloh and Other Stories
- Housekeeping
- Household Words
- Mom Kills Kids and Self
- Hasen
- A Way of Life, Like Any Other
- Speedboat
- Parthian Shot