2016 PEN Literary Award Winners

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Find a partial list of this year's winners below. For a complete list, go to PEN awards.

Achievement in Fiction	Toni Morrison
Socially Engaged Fiction	The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Debut Book Winner	In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
Essay	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Science Nonfiction	Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future by Lauren Redniss
Biography	Agnes Martin: her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal
Dramatist	Lynn Nottage
Poetry	Ed Roberson

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2016 PEN Literary Award Winners

Find a partial list of this year's winners below. For a complete list, go to PEN awards.

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