Since 1963, the PEN America Literary Awards have honored outstanding voices in translation, fiction, poetry, science writing, essay, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, and drama. The longlist of finalists was announced on March 21, and the winners will be announced on May 8.

For more information check out the Pen Literary Awards website.

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalists

SOLDIERS AND KINGS: SURVIVAL AND HOPE IN THE WORLD OF HUMAN SMUGGLING by Jason De León (DB 120057)

JAMES by Percival Everett (DB 120063, BR 25513 IN PROCESS, LB 0000436, en español DB 127871 en proceso)

ON FREEDOM by Timothy Snyder (DB 125451, LB 0001066)

BARN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF A MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI by Wright Thompson (DB 124993, LB 0001044)

PEN Open Book Award

BLUEPRINT: A NOVEL by Rae Giana Rashad (DBC 30655)

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

GOODBYE PROCESS: STORIES by Mary Jones (DB 124440)

PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

EARLY SOBRIETIES: A NOVEL by Michael Deagler (DB 126685)

FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL by Morgan Talty (DB 122119)

CATALINA: A NOVEL by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (DB 122898)

PEN Translation Prize

EMPUSIUM: A HEALTH RESORT HORROR STORY by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Natasha Soudek (DB 124960)

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

LEDE: DISPATCHES FROM A LIFE IN THE PRESS by Calvin Trillin (DB 119098)

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

BURNING EARTH: A HISTORY by Sunil Amrith (DB 126403)

PLAYING WITH REALITY: HOW GAMES HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD by Kelly Clancy (DB 122208)

AGE OF DEER: TROUBLE AND KINSHIP WITH OUR WILD NEIGHBORS by Erika Howsare (DB 119228)

EVERY LIVING THING: THE GREAT AND DEADLY RACE TO KNOW ALL LIFE by Jason Roberts (DB 120621)

WAVES IN AN IMPOSSIBLE SEA: HOW EVERYDAY LIFE EMERGES FROM THE COSMIC OCEAN by Matt Strassler (DB 119998)

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND by Max Boot (DB 125355)

CHARLIE HUSTLE: THE RISE AND FALL OF PETE ROSE, AND THE LAST GLORY DAYS OF BASEBALL by Keith O’Brien (DB 120390)

SHOWMAN: INSIDE THE INVASION THAT SHOOK THE WORLD AND MADE A LEADER OF VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY by Simon Shuster (DB 119252)

WIDE WIDE SEA: IMPERIAL AMBITION FIRST CONTACT AND THE FATEFUL, FINAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK by Hampton Sides (DB 120831, LB 0000158)

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

ACHILLES TRAP: SADDAM HUSSEIN, THE C. I. A., AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICA’S INVASION OF IRAQ by Steve Coll (DB 119811)

ANXIOUS GENERATION: HOW THE GREAT REWIRING OF CHILDHOOD IS CAUSING AN EPIDEMIC OF MENTAL ILLNESS by Jonathan Haidt (DB 121023, en español DB 124344)

RENT COLLECTORS: EXPLOITATION, MURDER, AND REDEMPTION IN IMMIGRANT LA by Jesse Katz (DB 125906)