PEN New England Award

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The PEN New England Award (previously L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award) is awarded annually by PEN New England (today PEN America Boston) [1] to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject. [2] [3] The award was established in 1975 by The Boston Globe in conjunction with PEN to honor the veteran Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship.

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Since 2005, the award has been presented in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with each winner receiving $1,000. [2] For one year in 2012, the award was called the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award in honor of father and son, Thomas Winship, both long-time Boston Globe editors. It was renamed to simply PEN New England Award starting with the 2013 award.

The award presentation is sponsored in part by the JFK Presidential Library. [4] The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.

Winners

1975-2004

L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award winners
YearAuthorTitleRef.
1975 Andre Dubus Separate Flights
1976 Claude-Anne Lopez The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family
1977 E. B. White Letters of E. B. White
1978 Martha Saxton Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
1979 Abbott Lowell Cummings The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725
1980 Millicent Bell Marquand: An American Life
1981 Estelle Jussim Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete
1982 William Sargent Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay
1983 ?
1984 Bernd Heinrich In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist's Life in the Field
1985 Susan Cheever Home Before Dark
1986 Diana Korzenik Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream
1987 Claudia Koonz Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics
1988 Susan Quinn A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney
1989 Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain
1990 Tracy Kidder Among Schoolchildren
1991 Mary Oliver House of Light
1992 Nicholas Fox Weber Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943
1993 Jack Beatty The Rascal King: Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
1994 ?
1995 ?
1996 Jane Brox Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family
1997 Jan Swafford Charles Ives: A Life With Music
1998 Anita Shreve The Weight of Water
1999 Donald Hall Without: Poems
2000 John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
2001 Jay Wright Transfigurations: Collected Poems [5]
2002 Elizabeth McCracken Niagara Falls All Over Again [6]
2003 Adam Haslett You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories [7]
2004 Joan Leegant An Hour in Paradise
Carlo Rotella Cut Time: An Education at the Fights

2005-present

PEN New England Award winners [8]
YearCategoryAuthorTitleRef.
2005 Fiction Jennifer Haigh Baker Towers [9]
Non-fiction Swanee Hunt This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace [9]
Poetry Kevin Goodan In the Ghost-House Acquainted [9]
2006 Fiction Edward J. Delaney Warp & Weft [10]
Non-fiction Leo Damrosch Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius [10]
Poetry Stanley Kunitz The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in The Garden [10]
2007 Fiction K. C. Frederick Inland [11]
Non-fiction Sebastian Junger A Death in Belmont [11]
Poetry Louise Glück Averno: Poems [11]
2008 Fiction Rishi Reddi Karma and Other Stories [12]
Non-fiction Kristen Laine American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland [12]
Poetry Ann Killough Beloved Idea [12]
2009 Fiction Margot Livesey The House on Fortune Street [13]
Non-fiction Patrick Tracey Stalking Irish Madness [13]
Poetry Nancy K. Pearson Two Minutes of Light [13]
2010 Fiction Anne Sanow Triple Time [14]
Non-fiction Elyssa East Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town [14]
Poetry Meg Kearney Home, Now [14]
2011 Fiction Kermit Moyer The Chester Chronicles [15]
Non-fiction Jerald Walker Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption [15]
Poetry Charles Douthat Blue for Oceans [15]
2012 Fiction Yannick Murphy The Call [16]
Non-fiction Mitchell Zuckoff Lost In Shangri-La [16]
Poetry Elizabeth Willis Address [16]
2013 Fiction Heidi Julavits The Vanishers [17]
Non-fiction Bernd Heinrich Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death [17]
Poetry David Huddle Blacksnake at the Family Reunion [17]
2014 Fiction Jennifer Haigh News from Heaven [18]
Non-fiction Doug Bauer What Happens Next?: Matters of Life and Death [18]
Poetry Karen Skolfield Frost in the Low Areas [18]
2015 Fiction Carolyn Chute Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves [19]
Non-fictionKevin BirminghamThe Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysees [19]
Poetry Wesley McNair The Lost Child [19]
2016 Fiction Jim Shepard The Book of Aron
Non-fiction Rinker Buck The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Poetry Reginald Dwayne Betts Bastards of the Reagan Era
2017 Fiction Robin MacArthur Half Wild
Non-fiction Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Poetry David Rivard Standoff
2018 No award

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