PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Jeffery Smith, Where the Roots Reach for Water (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files (Dial)

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist
Horton Foote


PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Suzan-Lori Parks

PEN Translation Prize
Richard Sieburth, Selected Writings by Gerard De Nerval (Penguin)

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Edmund Keeley


PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
James Brasfield and Oleh Lysheha, The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)


PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry
Heather McHugh

PEN/Nabokov Award for Fiction
William Gass

PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award
Marlene Reed Wetzel

PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts
Anne Hollander

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being (Knopf)

PEN/Renato Poggioli Translation Award
Wendell Ricketts, La Segretaria and other one act plays by Natalia Ginzburg