PEN America announced the winners of its 2020 Literary Awards in a ceremony on Monday evening. Yiyun Li‘s Where Reasons End (Random House) won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Mimi Lok‘s Last of Her Name (Kaya Press) won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection; Brandon Shimoda‘s The Grave on the Wall (City Lights Books) won the PEN Open Book Award for a book-length work of any genre by an author of color; and Deborah Fleming‘s Resurrection of the Wild (Kent State University Press) won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. See the […]