Awards: PEN Literary Shortlists; Ernest J. Gaines Winner

Shortlists have been announced for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards, which include the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000), PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay ($10,000), PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award ($10,000), PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction ($10,000), PEN Open Book Award ($5,000), PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography ($5,000), PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing ($5,000), PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000) and PEN Translation Prize ($3,000).

Winners will named March 1, with the exception of the debut fiction, essay and science categories, as well as Open Book and the PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, which will be named April 11 at PEN's Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City. You can view the complete shortlists here.

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T. Geronimo Johnson won the $10,000 Ernest J. Gaines Award, which "serves to inspire and recognize rising African-American fiction writers of excellence at a national level," for his book Welcome to Braggsville, which was praised as "a literary coming-of-age novel for a new generation."

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