2025 PEN America Literary Awards Winners – Locus Online

Winners for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards have been announced. Winners of genre interest include Verdigris by Michele Mari, translated by Brian Robert Moore (And Other Stories) in the $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation category, and Mia Couto in the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature category.

The finalists of genre interest were previously covered. The awards were announced live at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on May 8, 2025 in New York City NY. For more information, including a full list of winners, see the PEN America announcement.

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