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PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing industry.^[1] Created in 1991 by the PEN American Center (today PEN America), the PEN/Open Book program ensures custodians of language and literature are representative of the American people.

The Committee discusses mutual concerns and strategies for advancing writing and professional activities, and coordinates Open Book events. While multiple awards were presented in previous years, the PEN Open Book Award now presents one award every year to books published in the United States (but without citizenship or residency requirements) by "authors of color who have not received wide media coverage".

The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes. ^[2]

Honorees

PEN/Open Book Award

After 2010, the Beyond Margins Award was renamed the PEN/Open Book Award.

PEN/Open Book Award winners and finalists
Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2011	Manu Joseph	Serious Men	Winner	^[3]
2011	John Murillo	Up Jump the Boogie	Runner Up	^[3]
2012	Siddhartha Deb	The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India	Winner	^[4]
	Helon Habila	Oil on Water	Finalist	^[4]
	Quan Barry	Water Puppets	Finalist	^[4]
2013	Gina Apostol	Gun Dealers' Daughter	Winner (tie)	^[5]^[6]
	Kevin Young	The Grey Album	Winner (tie)	^[5]^[6]
	Francine J. Harris	Allegiance	Finalist	^[6]
	Brenda Shaughnessy	Our Andromeda
	Natalie Diaz	When My Brother Was an Aztec
2014	Nina McConigley	Cowboys and East Indians	Winner (tie)	^[7]^[8]
	Ruth Ellen Kocher	domina Un/blued	Winner (tie)	^[7]^[8]
	Kwame Dawes	Duppy Conqueror	Finalist	^[8]
	Taiye Selasi	Ghana Must Go
	Jennifer Foerster	Leaving Tulsa
2015	Claudia Rankine	Citizen: An American Lyric	Winner	^[9]
	Rabih Alameddine	An Unnecessary Woman	Finalist	^[10]^[11]
	Roxane Gay	An Untamed State
	Teju Cole	Every Day Is for the Thief
	Samrat Upadhyay	The City Son
2016	Rick Barot	Chord	Winner	^[12]
	Reginald Dwayne Betts	Bastards of the Reagan Era	Finalist	^[12]
	Vievee Francis	Forest Primeval: Poems
	Lauret Savoy	Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
	Marie Mutsuki Mockett	Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
2017	Helen Oyeyemi	What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours	Winner	^[13]
	Monica Youn	Blackacre	Finalist	^[14]
	Solmaz Sharif	Look
	Jamaal May	The Big Book of Exit Strategies
	Petina Gappah	The Book of Memory
2018	Alexis Okeowo	A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa	Winner	^[15]^[16]
	Kei Miller	Augustown	Finalist	^[17]
	Erika L. Sánchez	Lessons on Expulsion: Poems
	Jessica B. Harris	My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
	Nicole Sealey	Ordinary Beast: Poems
2019	Nafissa Thompson-Spires	Heads of the Colored People	Winner	^[18]
	Shauna Barbosa	Cape Verdean Blues	Finalist	^[19]
	Jenny Xie	Eye Level
	Tyrese Coleman	How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays
	Ángel García	Teeth Never Sleep
2020	Brandon Shimoda	The Grave on the Wall	Winner	^[20]
	Camonghne Felix	Build Yourself a Boat	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Carmen Giménez Smith	Be Recorder
	Maya Phillips	Erou
	Maurice Carlos Ruffin	We Cast a Shadow
2021	Asako Serizawa	Inheritors	Winner	^[23]
	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	A Treatise on Stars	Finalist	^[24]
	Souvankham Thammavongsa	How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
	Hafizah Geter	Un-American
	S*an D. Henry-Smith	Wild Peach
2022	Divya Victor	Curb	Winner	^[25]
	Rebecca Hall	Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts	Finalist	^[25]
	Rajiv Mohabir	Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
	Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint	Names for Light: A Family History
	Elissa Washuta	White Magic
2023	Hafizah Augustus Geter	The Black Period	Winner	^[26]^[27]
	Ramona Emerson	Shutter	Finalist	^[28]
	Casey Rocheteau	Gorgoneion
	Paul Tran	All The Flowers Kneeling
	Toya Wolfe	Last Summer on State Street

Beyond Margins Award

Prior to 2010, the PEN Open Book Award was referred to as the Beyond Margins Award, and several books were selected per year as joint winners.

Beyond Margins Award winners
Year	Author	Title
Earlier winners	Giannina Braschi	Yo-Yo Boing!
	Timothy Liu	Say Goodnight
	Bino Realuyo (ed.)	The NuyorAsian Anthology
	April Robinson
2002	Meena Alexander	Illiterate Heart
	Luis Francia	Eye of the Fish
	Joy Harjo	A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales
	Victor LaValle	Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories
	Nelly Rosario	Song of the Water Saints
2004	Laila Halaby	West of the Jordan: A Novel
	Suki Kim	The Interpreter
	Nasdijj	The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping
	Willie Perdomo	Smoking Lovely
	April Reynolds	Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel
2005	Faith Adiele	Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun
	Raquel Cepeda (ed.)	And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
	Lan Samantha Chang	Inheritance
	Lolita Hernandez	Autopsy of an Engine, and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant
	Ishle Yi Park	The Temperature of This Water
2006	Richard Blanco	Directions to the Beach of the Dead
	Andrew Lam	Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
	Ed Bok Lee	Real Karaoke People
	Caryl Phillips	Dancing in the Dark
	Jennifer Tseng	The Man With My Face
2007	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Half of a Yellow Sun
	Ernest Hardy	Blood Beats, Vol. 1
	Harryette Mullen	Recyclopedia
	Alberto Ríos	Theater of Night
2008	Chris Abani	Song for Night
	Amiri Baraka	Tales of the Out and the Gone
	Frances Hwang	Transparency
	Naeem Murr	The Perfect Man
	Joseph M. Marshall III	The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
2009	Uwem Akpan	Say You're One of Them
	Juan Felipe Herrera	Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
	Lily Hoang	Changing
2010	Sherwin Bitsui	Flood Song
	Robin D. G. Kelley	Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
	Canyon Sam	Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History

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