Weike Wang has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her debut novel Chemistry. She will receive $25,000 at an awards ceremony in Boston on April 8. Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Adelia Saunders’ Indelible were the runners-up, while The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins and Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte received honorable mentions. In other awards news, the James Tait Black Prizes announced their nominees in fiction and nonfiction, with the winners to be named on August 18. The American Booksellers Association announced the finalists for the 2018 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, with the winners to be announced May 2. The nominees […]
