2015 PEN awards for debut fiction, emerging nonfiction announced

In the US, PEN America has announced the second round of winners for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. Following the announcement of the majority of the award-winners in May, the winners of four final categories were announced at the PEN American Centre’s annual awards ceremony in New York. The winners were: The Dog (Jack Livings, Penguin), which won the US$25,000 (A$32,458) PEN/Robert W Bingham Prize for debut fiction; Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (Ian Buruma, New York Review Books), which won the US$10,000 ($A13,000) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; Citizen: An American Lyric (Claudia Rankine, Penguin) which won the US$5000 ($A6,492) PEN Open Book Award for an ‘exceptional book-length’ work by an author of colour; and Adriana E Ramírez’s manuscript Dead Boys, which was awarded the inaugural US$10,000 (($A13,000) PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize for an ‘unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue’. A full list of awards recipients is available here.  

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