PEN/Open Book

Given by PEN America

Other Names: Beyond Margins Award
92 Works / 95 Items 27,745 Books 1,204 Reviews ½ 4.0
Wikipedia info

Winner/Run-up distinction added in 2011.

Formerlly called Beyond Margins Award.
Stages:
All, Winner (47), Shortlist (29), Longlist (19)
Categories:
All, Winner (2), No Category (93)
Years:
All, 2021 (1), 2019 (6), 2018 (5), 2017 (12), 2016 (10), 2015 (11), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (3), 2011 (2), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (5), 2007 (4), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5)

Winner 47

WorkCategoryYear
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa2021
Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires2019
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo2018
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi2017
Chord by Rick Barot2016
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine2015
Domina un/blued : poems by Ruth Ellen Kocher2014
Cowboys and East Indians by Nina Mcconigley2014
Gun Dealers' Daughter by Gina Apostol2013
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young2013
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha DebWinner2012
Serious Men by Manu JosephWinner2011
Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui2010
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin D. G. Kelley2010
Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam2010
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan2009
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera2009
Changing by Lily Hoang2009
Song for Night by Chris Abani2008
Tales of the Out & the Gone by Amiri Baraka2008
Transparency: Stories by Frances Hwang2008
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall, III2008
The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr2008
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie2007
Blood Beats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions by Ernest Hardy2007
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen2007
The Theater of Night by Alberto Rios2007
Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Camino del Sol) by Richard Blanco2006
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam2006
Real Karaoke People (Many Voices Project) by Ed Bok Lee2006
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips2006
The Man With My Face by Jennifer Tseng2006
Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun by Faith Adiele2005
And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years by Raquel Cepeda2005
Inheritance by Lan Samantha Chang2005
Autopsy of an Engine: and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant by Lolita Hernandez2005
The Temperature of This Water by Ishle Park2005
West of the Jordan: A Novel (Bluestreak) by Laila Halaby2004
The Interpreter by Suki Kim2004
The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping by Nasdijj2004
Smoking Lovely by Willie Perdomo2004
Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel by April Reynolds2004
Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly Books) by Meena Alexander2003
Eye Of The Fish by Luis Francia2003
A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo2003
Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor LaValle2003
Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario2003

Shortlist 29

WorkYear
Cape Verdean Blues (Pitt Poetry Series) by Shauna Barbosa2019
How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese L. Coleman2019
Teeth never sleep : poems by Ángel García2019
Eye Level: Poems by Jenny Xie2019
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris2018
Augustown by Kei Miller2018
Ordinary Beast: Poems by Nicole Sealey2018
Lessons on Expulsion: Poems by Erika L. Sánchez2018
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah2017
The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May2017
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif2017
Blackacre: Poems by Monica Youn2017
Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts2016
Forest Primeval: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Vievee Francis2016
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey by Marie Mutsuki Mockett2016
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy2016
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine2015
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole2015
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay2015
The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay2015
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes2014
Leaving Tulsa (Sun Tracks) by Jennifer Elise Foerster2014
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi2014
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz2013
allegiance (Made in Michigan Writers Series) by francine j harris2013
Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy2013
Water Puppets (Pitt Poetry Series) by Quan Barry2012
Oil on Water by Helon Habila2012
Up Jump the Boogie by John Murillo2011

Longlist 19

WorkYear
How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays by Tyrese L. Coleman2019
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett2017
Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi2017
The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue2017
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif2017
Problems by Jade Sharma2017
Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair2017
It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time: Poems by Angela Jackson2016
God Loves Haiti: A Novel by Dimitry Elias Léger2016
The blind writer : stories and a novella by Sameer Pandya2016
Heaven: Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips2016
The Pink Box (Willow Books Emerging Poets & Writers Series) by Yesenia Montilla2016
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow2015
Team Seven: A Novel by Marcus Burke2015
Streaming by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James2015
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li2015
The Fateful Apple: Foreword by: Dr. Keith D. Leonard by Venus Thrash2015

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Wikipedia info

Winner/Run-up distinction added in 2011.

Formerlly called Beyond Margins Award. (English, Member-written)
The Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. The award confers a $5,000 prize upon an author of color. U.S. residency or citizenship is not required. (Formerly the PEN Beyond Margins Award.)

Official award page

Book awards: PEN Open Book Award Shortlist (English, Member-written)
The Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. The award confers a $5,000 prize upon an author of color. U.S. residency or citizenship is not required. (Formerly the PEN Beyond Margins Award.)

Official award page

Book awards: PEN Open Book Award Longlist (English, Member-written)
Wikipedia info

Renamed the PEN/Open Book Award starting in 2010. (English, Member-written)
PEN/Open Book after 2010 https://ru.librarything.com/bookaward/PEN%252FOpen+Book (Russian, Member-written)

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