Make room on fashion and eroticismyour to-be-read list. On Thursday, PEN America announced its lists of finalists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards.
Each year, the PEN Literary Awards honors great new literature in fiction and a wide array of non-fiction, including sports writing, science writing, essays, and more. Past winners have included Matthew Desmond's deep dive into eviction practices in the U.S. Evicted and Helen Oyeyemi's fable-inspired short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours(which was also a MashReads favorite).
SEE ALSO: Book service helps black children find empowering stories they can relate toThis year's finalists are just as rich and compelling. Finalists for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards include the late Ursula Le Guin's essay collection No Time To Spare, Carmen Maria Machado's acclaimed short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was also a finalist in the 2017 National Book Awards, as well as Ta-Nehisi Coates' essay collection We Were Eight Years In Power. If Coates wins, it will mark his second PEN Literary Award, after he won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for his book Between The World And Me in 2015.
These breakout books aren't the only titles that make the 2018 PEN Literary Awards exceptional. This year's finalist list also shines a spotlight on exceptional, diverse authors. In addition to the PEN's annual Open Book Award, which honors books written by authors of color, two other categories are composed entirely of minority authors: for the first time ever the finalist list for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction is composed of all women and the finalist list for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award is composed entirely of authors of color.
"It is fitting that our Literary Awards this year spotlight five new women's voices in fiction as well as a dazzling diversity of writers for our flagship Stein prize and in other categories," said PEN America Executive Director Suzanne Nossel in a press release. "PEN America's Literary Awards celebrate some of the greatest fruits of free expression—stories that inspire, spark empathy, and change minds. At a time when the fabric of our discourse is being torn by polarization, technological change, and political upheaval, literature has the power to help us see past impasse and imagine a different future."
Check out the finalist list below, and stay tuned for the winners to be revealed on Feb. 20.
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Hannah Lillith Assadi
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Venita Blackburn
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Carmen Maria Machado
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Emily Fridlund
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Jenny Zhang
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Alexis Okeowo
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Jessica B. Harris
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Kei Miller
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Nicole Sealey
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Erika L. Sánchez
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Lindsey Fitzharris
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David Baron
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David Montgomery
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Ron Powers
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Robert Sapolsky
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John Farrell
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Ron Chernow
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Victor Sebestyen
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Lawrence P. Jackson
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Wendy Lesser
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Rafi Kohan
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Leigh Montville
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Jerald Podair
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Joe Tone
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Jonathan Eig
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Carina Chocano
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Lauren Elkin
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Sarah Gorham
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Robert Reid
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Emma Reyes, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Alarcón
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David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
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Jesús Carrasco, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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Han Yujoo, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
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Magda Szabó, translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix
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Hari Kunzru
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Layli Long Soldier
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Kevin Young
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Victor LaValle
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