PEN America has announced their Longlists for the 2022 Literary Awards!

The Awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognising their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have had a continuous, lasting impact on the literary landscape. You can learn more about the 2022 Judges PEN America Literary Awards judges here.

The 2022 Literary Awards will confer over $350,000 to writers and translators. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more, these Longlisted books are dynamic, diverse, and thought-provoking examples of literary excellence. View the .

Finalists for all Book Awards will be announced in January 2022. Stay tuned for more.