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Naomi Klein longlisted for 2015 PEN Literary Award

naomi kleinNaomi Klein has been longlisted for the biennial PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Non-fiction for her 2014 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize–winning title, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf Canada).

The $10,000 award aims to recognize a work of non-fiction published in the U.S. in the previous two years that tackles a contemporary issue with “notable literary merit and critical perspective.”

Finalists will be announced April 15, and the winner will be revealed May 13 and honoured at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony in New York City on June 8.