Writer Julian Brave NoiseCat has been named a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.

The annual $10,000 (U.S.) prize, one of 10 administered by the U.S.-based organization that champions the freedom to write. The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is awarded to “a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective that illuminates important contemporary issues.”

NoiseCat’s We Survived the Night (Random House Canada, 2025), a book that blends reportage, history, and mythology to examine contemporary Indigenous life in North American, as well as a reckoning between the author and his father, is one of five finalists for this year’s award.

The winners of the 2026 PEN awards will be named at a ceremony on March 31.