2007 Literary Awards Winners

PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Philip Roth

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turning Machines (Knopf)

Finalists
Tony D’Souza, Whiteman (Harcourt)
Katherine Min, Secondhand World (Knopf)

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
James Carroll, House of War

Finalists
Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist
A.R. Gurney

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Naomi Iizuka

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Peter Covino, Cut off the Ears of Winter

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Diane Les Becquets, Genesis

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
David Hinton, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei

Finalists
James Reidel for his translation from the German of In Hora Mortis/Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems by Thomas Bernhard
Paul Schmidt, The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Various Authors

PEN Translation Prize
Sandra Smith, Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (Knopf)

Finalists
Carol Brown Janeway, Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Shaun Whiteside, 54 by Wu Ming

PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing
Bradford Morrow, editor of Conjunctions

PEN Translation Fund
Susan Bernofsky, The Assistant by Robert Walser
Jennifer Hayashida, Clockwork of Flowers: Explanations and Poems by Fredrik Nyberg
Wen Huang, Farewell to Jiabiangou by Yang Xianhui
Ha-yun Jung, A Lone Room by Shin Kyong-sook
Sara Khalili, Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
Paul Olchváry, The Ninth by Ferenc Barnás
Bill Porter (a.k.a. Red Pine), anthology of the poems of Wei Ying-wu
Katherine Silver, Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Christopher Southward, Acacia, short stories by Hitonari Tsuji
Alyson Waters, The Colors of Infamy, by Albert Cossery

PEN/Open Book Award for a Distinguished Work by an Author of Color (Beyond Margins Awards)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Ernest Hardy, Blood Beats, Vol. 1
Harryette Mullen, Recyclopedia
Alberto Ríos, Theater of Night