Judges: Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Gracen Brilmyer, Joe Richmanįrom the judges’ citation: “A work of remarkable creativity and dedication, Simar Preet Kaur’s A Hyphenway in the Sky uncovers a precarious world that few experience or know about: the journeys of truck drivers traveling along India’s Manali-Leh Highway, a 475-kilometer winding road that borders China and Pakistan. Beginning in the 2021 cycle, PEN America confers two grants with cash prizes of $15,000 each. The grants are made possible by a substantial contribution from American author and editor Jean Stein, whose groundbreaking work helped popularize literary oral history. The PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History recognize literary works of nonfiction that use oral history to illuminate an event, individual, place, or movement. PEN/Jean Stein Grants for Literary Oral History ($15,000) 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
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