The L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award was established by the Boston Globe in 1975 to honor long-time Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship. The awards celebrate best works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by New England authors. Previous winners of the L.L. Winship Award include E.B. White, Andre Dubus, Susan Cheever, Tracy Kidder, Mary Oliver, Susan Quinn, Jill Ker Conway, Jan Swafford, Anita Shreve, Edward Delaney, Swanee Hunt, Kevin Goodan, Stanley Kunitz, Leo Damrosch, Jennifer Haigh, K.C. Frederick, Louise Glück, Sebastian Junger, Rishi Reddi, Ann Killough, Kristen Laine, Patrick Tracy, Nancy K. Pearson, Margot Livesey, Anne Sanow, Meg Kearney, and Elyssa East.

The 2011 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award winners were Kermit Moyer for “The Chester Chronicles,” Charles Douthat for “Blue for Oceans,” and Gerald Walker for “Street Shadows.” The 2011 judges were Kurt Brown, Alan Davis, and Joe Mackall.

In 2012, the award was renamed The Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award in honor of father and son, both long-time Boston Globe editors.

For information about the 2012 award winners and ceremony click here.

To watch the ceremony, click here.

Previous L.L. Winship/PEN winners

1975 Separate Flights by Andre Dubus

1976 The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family by Claude-Anne Lopez

1977 Letters of E. B. White by E. B. White

1978 Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton

1979 The Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725 by Abbott Lowell Cummings

1980 Marquand: An American life by Millicent Bell

1981 Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete by Estelle Jussim

1982 Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod’s Pleasant Bay by William Sargent

1984 In a Patch of Fireweed: A Biologist’s Life in the Field by Bernd Heinrich

1985 Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever

1986 Drawn to Art: A Nineteenth Century American Dream by Diana Korzenik

1987 Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz

1988 A Mind of Her Own: The Life of Karen Horney by Susan Quinn

1989 The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

1990 Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder

1991 House of Light by Mary Oliver

1992 Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943 by Nicholas Fox Weber

1993 The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958) by Jack Beatty

1996 Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family by Jane Brox

1997 Charles Ives: A Life With Music by Jan Swafford

1998 The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

1999 Without: Poems by Donald Hall

2000 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower

2001 Transfigurations: Collected Poems by Jay Wright

2002 Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken

2003 You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett

2004

Fiction: An Hour in Paradise by Joan Leegant

Non-fiction: Cut Time: An Education at the Fights by Carlo Rotella

2005

Poetry: In the Ghost-House Acquainted by Kevin Goodan

Non-fiction: This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt

Fiction: Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh

2006

Poetry: The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz

Non-fiction: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch

Fiction: Warp & Weft by Edward J. Delaney

2007

Poetry: Averno: Poems by Louise Glück

Non-fiction: A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger

Fiction: Inland by K. C. Frederick

2008

Poetry: Beloved Idea by Ann Killough

Non-fiction: American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland by Kristen Laine

Fiction: Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi

2009

Poetry: Two Minutes of Light by Nancy K. Pearson

Non-fiction: Stalking Irish Madness by Patrick Tracey

Fiction: The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

2010

Poetry: Home By Now by Meg Kearney

Non-fiction: Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town by Elyssa East

Fiction: Triple Time by Anne Sanow

2011

Poetry: Blue for Oceans, Charles Douthat

Non-fiction: Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, Jerald Walker

Fiction: The Chester Chronicles, Kermit Moyer

2012

Poetry: Address, Elizabeth Willis

Non-fiction: Lost In Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff

Fiction: The Call, Yannick Murphy