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Chris Abani has won the 2005 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for “Graceland” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The late Mary Hemingway, fourth wife of Ernest Hemingway, founded the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976 to honor her husband and draw attention to first books of fiction. … Authors Kevin Goodan, Swanee Hunt, and Edward J. Delaney have been named recipients of the 2005 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, given annually to an author from New England or whose writing includes a Yankee setting. Mr. Goodan has been recognized in the poetry category for “In the Ghost House Acquainted” (Alice James Books); Ms. Hunt in the non-fiction category for “This Was Not Our War” (Duke University Press); and Mr. Delaney in the fiction category for “Warp & Weft” (Permanent Press). The L.L. Winship/PEN Award honors long-time Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship and is sponsored by the Boston Globe and PEN/New England. … Poet Gillian Allnutt has been awarded the L60,000 ($114,000) Northern Rock Foundation Writer’s Award. Ms. Allnutt has published six collections, including, most recently, “Sojourner” (Bloodaxe Books). The award, now in its fourth year, supports the creative work of an individual writer over a substantial length of time and is sponsored by the Northern Rock Foundation. It awards L20,000 ($38,000) a year over a three-year period. …Welsh poet Christine Evans has won the inaugural Roland Mathias Prize, which aims to promote Welsh writing in English. She will receive L2,000 for her sixth volume of poetry, a collection titled “New and Selected Poems” (Seren Books). … Bengali writer and poet Sunil Gangopadhyay has won the Saraswati Samman literary award for his novel “Pratham Alo” (First Light). The award, instituted by the KK Birla Foundation, is given annually to an outstanding literary work in one of 18 Indian languages and published in the last 10 years. Mr. Gangopadhyay, vice-president of the Sahitya Akademi, has penned more than 250 volumes, including novels, short-story collections, poetry collections, and travelogues.