PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2024 Literary Awards. Our Awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have had a continuous, lasting impact on the literary landscape.
The 2024 Literary Awards will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, poetry, translation, and more, these Longlisted books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence.
Finalists for the following awards will be announced before the ceremony. Stay tuned for more and join us at the 2024 Literary Awards Ceremony on April 29!
Please note that the following awards will be announced on a different timeline: PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, PEN Open Book Award, PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.