1999 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Ted Solotaroff, Truth Comes in Blows (Norton)

PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tommorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)



PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater for a Master American Dramatist
Edward Albee


PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Paula Vogel

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
Michael Hofmann, The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth (St. Martin’s)

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Nick Flynn, Some Ether

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa & Co (Grove)


PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam (Houghton Mifflin)