PEN/Nabokov Award for Fiction
Cynthia Ozick, What Happened to the Baby
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)
Finalists:
Joshua Ferris, Then We Come to an End (Little, Brown, & Co.)
Alex Mindt, The Male of the Species (Delphinium)
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist
Richard Nelson, Conversations in Tusculum
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Rosmarie Waldrop, Lingos I-IX by Ulf Stolterfoht
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Theresa Nelson, Julia Delaney: The American Vision
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Kimiko Hahn, Trading Words
PEN Translation Prize
Margaret Jull Costa, The Maias, by Eça de Queirós
PEN/Open Book Award for a Distinguished Work by an Author of Color
Chris Abani, Song for Night
Amiri Baraka, Tales of the Out and the Gone
Frances Hwang, Transparency
Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man
Joseph M. Marshall III, The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn