50th Annual PEN/Hemingway Award Ceremony
April 26
2:00pm - 3:00pm
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Speakers
Seán Hemingway
Alice McDermott
Seán Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s grandson, honors 2026 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel finalists and winner Virginia Evans, author of The Correspondent, at this ceremony. Award-winning author Alice McDermott delivers the keynote address. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s personal papers. This program is co-presented with The International Hemingway Foundation and Society and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.
