2006 Literary Awards Winners

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Gregory Rabassa, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents

Finalists
Dan Hofstadter, Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples
Maggie Nelson, Jane: A Murder

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Color of Desire
Marjorie Williams, The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family and Fate

Finalists
Sam Apple, Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past With its Last Wandering Shepherd
Nate Blakeslee, Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Christopher Coake, We’re in Trouble (Harcourt)

Finalists Tom Bissell, God Lives in St. Petersburg: And Other Stories (Pantheon)
Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows (Vintage)

PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist and for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Adrienne Kennedy

PEN/Nabokov Award for Fiction
Philip Roth

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Linda Gregg

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Edith Grossman

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Barbara Shoup

PEN/Open Book Award for a Distinguished Work by an Author of Color (Beyond Margins Literary Awards)
Richard Blanco, Directions to the Beach of the Dead
Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Ed-Bok Lee, Real Karaoke People
Caryl Philips, Dancing in the Dark
Jennifer Tseng, The Man with My Face

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Wilson Baldridge, Recumbents by Michel Deguy

Finalists
Clayton Eshleman, Conductors of the Pit by various authors
Thomas Meyer, Daode Jing by Laozi

PEN/Translation Prize
Philip Gabriel, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)

Finalists
Flora Drew, The Noodle Maker by Ma Jian
Michael Hofmann, Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm

PEN Translation Fund Grants
Johannes Goransson, The Collected Poems of Henry Parland
Victoria Haggblom, To Mervas, by Elizabeth Rynell
Nicky Harman, Chinese of Striking Root, by Han Dong
Ann L. Huss, Beauty, by Ge Fei
Sawako Nakayasu, For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut, by Takashi Hiraide
Tegan Raleigh,The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar
Constantine Rusanov, The Junction by Tomas Venclova
Stepan S. Simek, Theremin and Three Sisters 2002.CZ, by Petr Zelenka
Alan Trei and Inna Feldbach, Robber’s Rise (Book One of The Truth and Justice pentalogy), by Anton Hansen Tammsaare