1997 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction

Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast (HarperCollins)


Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Arnold Pomerans, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Viking)

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Robert Fagles


PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Edward Snow, Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)


PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly (Knopf)