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On Wednesday, PEN America announced the finalists for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards, which honor the best and brightest in literature, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama and poetry. Mashable announced PEN's award longlist in December and now the finalists have been revealed.

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They include Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi and The Mothers by Brit Bennett, two of 2016's lauded debut fiction titles, as well as Evictedby Matthew Desmond,a much praised investigation into eviction and poverty in America.

Check out the finalists below before the winners are announced on Feb. 22.

PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award

(for any book-length work of any genre for its originality, merit and impact)

Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole

Olioby Tyehimba Jess

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Betweenby Hisham Matar

Dark Moneyby Jane Mayer

The Underground Railroadby Colson Whitehead

PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott

We Show What We Have Learnedby Clare Beams

The Mothersby Brit Bennett

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Hurt People by Cote Smith

PEN/ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs

Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and The Mind by Siri Hustvedt

The Girls in My Town by Angela Morales

Becoming Earth by Eva Saulitis

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

The Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iranby Laura Secor

Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram

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PEN/ E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflight by Julian Guthrie

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish by Emily Voigt

PEN Open Book Award 

(for an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2016)

The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

The Big Book of Exit Strategies by Jamaal May

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Look by Solmaz Sharif

Blackarce by Monica Youn

PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers by Michael Leahy

Catching the Sky by Colten Moore with Keith O’Brien

Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA by Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss

Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town by S.L. Price

Fastpitch: The Untold History of the Softball and the Women Who Made the Game by Erica Westly

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow

Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White by Michael Tisserand

PEN Translation Prize 

(for literary prose)

Confessions by Rabee Jaber, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Between Life and Death by Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav

Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis

Justine by Iben Mondrup, translated from the Danish by Kerri A. Pierce

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Pearl: A New Verse Translationtranslated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage

Abyssby Ya Hsien, translated from the Chinese by John Balcom

Preludes and Fuguesby Emmanuel Moses, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker

In Praise of Defeatby Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson Smith

Absolute Solitudeby Dulce Maria Loynaz, translated from the Spanish by James O'Connor

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