Novelist Tommy Orange keeps winning awards. PEN America announced Tuesday that the author of There There, the most honoured literary debut of 2018, has received the PEN/Hemingway award for “distinguished” new novel. Orange’s previous awards included a prize from the National Book Critics Circle for best new book and the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. Orange, an Oakland native, is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Ernest Hemingway’s grandson Sean Hemingway will present the award to Orange at an April 7 ceremony at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, where the late author’s archives are stored.

Source: National Post March 19, 2019 16:07 UTC