PEN New England and the JFK Presidential Library Announce Winners of the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

BOSTON, MA – PEN New England today announced that Brigid Pasulka has won the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Pasulka on Sunday, March 28, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, the world’s principal center for research on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. National Book Awards-Finalist Dorothy Allison will serve as the ceremony’s keynote speaker.

Previous recipients of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award include  Marilynne Robinson, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys,  Ha Jin,  Chang Rae Lee,  Jhumpa Lahiri  and Joshua Ferris.
Full release can be read here.

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In NZ/Aust this title is published by Hachette under their Sceptre imprint.