Patrick Hemingway bestowed the 2016 PEN Hemingway Award to Ottessa Moshfegh for her novel Eileen. James Wood, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of How Fiction Works, delivered the keynote address. The PEN New England Awards in Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction were also presented at the ceremony.

Patrick Hemingway bestowed the 2016 PEN Hemingway Award to Ottessa Moshfegh for her novel Eileen. James Wood, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of How Fiction Works, delivered the keynote address. The PEN New England Awards in Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction were also presented at the ceremony.

40th Anniversary PEN Hemingway Awards

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40th Anniversary PEN Hemingway Awards

40th Anniversary PEN Hemingway Awards