Portland finds place on PEN America awards longlists; ‘Sharks in the Time of Saviors’ dominates
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
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PEN America on Tuesday announced the “longlists” for its 2021 awards, making a debut novel with a Portland connection an oddsmakers’ favorite to take home a prize.
Kawai Strong Washburn’s “Sharks in the Time of Saviors” made the list in three categories, the first time that’s ever happened. The novel, a mystical family epic that partly takes place in the Rose City, is in the running for the Jean Stein Book Award, the Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the PEN Open Book Award.