【1991 Archives】

Writers from all over the world came together to celebrate books Monday night at the 2017 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony.

991 Archivesceremony is an annual celebration of the best and most impactful fiction, nonfiction, essays, plays and poems published throughout the year.

This year's show was hosted by comedian, actor and producer Aasif Mandvi and honored a wide range of literature, from Evicted, Matthew Desmond's acclaimed investigation of poverty in America, to What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, a fable-inspired short story collection by Helen Oyeyemi.

You can watch the full ceremony above. Check out the list of winners below.

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityby Matthew Desmond

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards

Master American Dramatist: Suzan-Lori Parks

American Playwright in Mid-Career: Tarell Alvin McCraney

Emerging Ameican Playwright: Thomas Bradshaw

PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History

How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement by Aleksandar Hemon 

PEN Open Book Award

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours byHelen Oyeyemi

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary byJoe Jackson

PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss

PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing

Bill Nack

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

The Verging Cities by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship

Finding a Home at the End of the World by Phillippe Diederich

PEN Translation Prize

Angel of Oblivionby Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Pearl: A New Verse Translationby The Pearl Poet, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage

PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing

Michael Archer and Joel Whitney for Guernica

PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

“Galina” by Angela Ajayi “The Handler” by Amber Caron “Tell Me, Please” by Emily Chammah “The Asphodel Meadow” by Jim Cole “Solee” by Hana Kim “The Manual Alphabet” by Samuel Clare Knights “Goldhawk” by Katherine Magyarody “A Modern Marriage” by Grace Oluseyi “1,000-Year-Old Ghosts” by Laura Chow Reeve “State Facts for the New Age” by Amy Sauber “A Message” by Ruth Serven “Edwin Chase of Nantucket” by Ben Shattuck 

PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants ($2,000-$4,000) & PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature

Floral Mutterby YA Shi (哑石) translated from the Chinese by Nick AdmussenThe Cowards Who Looked to the Skyby Misumi Kubo, translated from the Japenese by Polly BartonThe Palimpsestsby Aleksandra Lun, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer Felix Austriaby Sophia Andrukhovych, translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky Raoul Schrott: Selected Poems, translated from the German by Iain GalbraithEdinburgh Notebookby Valerie Mejer Caso, translated from the Spanish by Michelle Gil-MonteroThe Remainderby Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from the Spanish by Sophie HughesThirteen Months of Sunrisesby Rania Mamoun, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth JaquetteThe Arabby Pooneh Rohi, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson I Didn’t Talkby Beatriz Bracher, translated from the Portuguese by Adam Morris A Paradeby Nhã Thuyên, translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin ReesWûfby Kemal Varol, translated from the Turkish by Dayla Rogers In Your Nameby Mauro Covacich, translated from the Italian by Christopher Tamigi There’s a Carnival Todayby Indra Bahadur Rai, translated from the Nepali by Manjushree Thapa This Land That Is Like Youby Tobie Nathan, translated from the French by Joyce Zonana 

(The following awards will be announced live at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony)

PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

Ali Ahmad Said Esber (also known as Adonis)

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

Winner: The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Betweenby Hisham Matar

Finalist:Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole

Finalist:OlioTyehimba Jess

Finalist:Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Rightby Jane Mayer

Finalist:The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

Winner: Insurrectionsby Rion Amilcar Scott

Finalist:We Show What We Have Learnedby Clare Beams

Finalist:The Mothersby Brit Bennett

Finalist:Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi

Finalist:Hurt Peopleby Cote Smith

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Winner: The Girls in My Townby Angela Morales

Finalist:The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine and Motherhoodby Belle Boggs

Finalist:Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole

Finalist:A Woman Looking At Men Looking At Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mindby Siri Hustvedt

Finalist:Becoming Earthby Eva Saulitis