PEN/Open Book
PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry.[1] Created in 1991 by the PEN American Center, the PEN/Open Book program ensures custodians of language and literature are representative of the American people.
The Committee discusses mutual concerns and strategies for advancing writing and professional activities, and coordinates Open Book events. While multiple awards were presented in previous years, the PEN Open Book Award now presents one award every year to books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage".
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[2]
List of winners and runners-up
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner
- 2016
- Winner will be announced April 11, 2016[3]
- 2015[4]
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
- Ruth Ellen Kocher, domina Un/blued
- Nina McConigley, Cowboys and East Indians
- Gina Apostol, Gun Dealers' Daughter
- Kevin Young, The Grey Album
- 2012[9]
- Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
- Quan Barry, Water Puppets
- Helon Habila, Oil on Water
- 2011
- Manu Joseph, Serious Men
- John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie
2010 and earlier had no runner-up, all considered winners
- 2010
- Sherwin Bitsui: Flood Song
- Robin D.G. Kelley: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
- Canyon Sam: Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History
- 2009
- Uwem Akpan: Say You're One of Them
- Juan Felipe Herrera: Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
- Lily Hoang: Changing
- 2008
- Chris Abani: Song for Night
- Amiri Baraka: Tales of the Out and the Gone
- Frances Hwang: Transparency
- Naeem Murr: The Perfect Man
- Joseph M. Marshall III: The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
- 2007
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
- Ernest Hardy: Blood Beats, Vol. 1
- Harryette Mullen: Recyclopedia
- Alberto Ríos: Theater of Night
- 2006
- Richard Blanco: Directions to the Beach of the Dead
- Andrew Lam: Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
- Ed Bok Lee: Real Karaoke People
- Caryl Phillips: Dancing in the Dark
- Jennifer Tseng: The Man With My Face
- 2005
- Faith Adiele: Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
- Raquel Cepeda (editor): And It Don’t Stop:The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
- Lan Samantha Chang: Inheritance
- Lolita Hernandez: Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
- Ishle Yi Park: The Temperature of This Water
- 2004
- Laila Halaby: West of the Jordan: A Novel
- Suki Kim: The Interpreter
- Nasdijj: The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping
- Willie Perdomo: Smoking Lovely
- April Reynolds: Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel
- 2002
- Meena Alexander: Illiterate Heart
- Luis Francia: Eye of the Fish
- Joy Harjo: A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales
- Victor LaValle: Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories
- Nelly Rosario: Song of the Water Saints
- Earlier winners
- Giannina Braschi: Yo-Yo Boing!
- Bino Realuyo
- April Robinson
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External links
- PEN American Center - Open Book Official site
