PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2022
Winner 2022
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández
Shortlist
- The President and The Frog by Carolina De Robertis
- The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett
- Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
- Harrow by Joy Williams
PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD
Winner 2022
Curb by Divya Victor
Shortlist
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
- Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir by Rajiv Mohabir
- Names for Light: A Family History by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
- White Magic by Elissa Washuta
PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Winner 2022
Skinship: Stories by Yoon Choi
Shortlist
- Eat the Mouth That Feeds You by Carribean Fragoza
- Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
- Objects of Desire: Stories by Clare Sestanovich
- Give My Love to the Savages: Stories by Chris Stuck
PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL
Winner
Detransition Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
Shortlist
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel by Carolyn Ferrell
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Winner
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South by Margaret Renkl
Shortlist
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Homo Irrealis: Essays by André Aciman
- Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
- These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Winner
Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver Translated from the Spanish by Julia Sanches
Shortlist
- FEM by Magda Cârneci Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
- New Year by Juli Zeh Translated from the German by Alta L. Price
- The Last One: A Novel by Fatima Daas Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
- Kaya Days: A Novel by Carl de Souza Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
Winner
Fox and I: An uncommon friendship by Catherine Raven
Shortlist
- The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind What We Remember — A Medical Mystery by Lauren Aguirre
- The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World by Lisa Wells
- Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
Winner
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION
Winner
All that She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family’s Keepsake by Tiya Miles
Shortlist
- The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
- Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare
- The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew D. Kaufman
- Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit