1996 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club (Viking)

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Stanislaw Baranczak & Clare Cavanagh, View With a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska (Harcourt)

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Guy Davenport, editor and translator, 7 Greeks, (New Directions)


PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry
Franz Wright

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Thomas Nagel, Other Minds (Oxford)