2009 Literary Award Winners

PEN/Nabokov Award
Philip Roth

PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

PEN/Saul Bellow Award
Cormac McCarthy

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century

PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories
Junot Diaz, Nadine Gordimer, Ha Jin

PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid Career
Nilo Cruz, Beauty of the Father

PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
Sam Shepard

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Linda Gregg

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Carol Lynch Williams, A Glimpse is All I Can Stand

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Jeffrey Yang, An Aquarium

PEN/Nora Magid Award
Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story

PEN Translation Prize
Natasha Wimmer, 2666 by Robert Bolaño

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Marilyn Hacker, King of a Hundred Horsemen, by Marie Etienne

Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
Michael Henry Heim, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

PEN Beyond Margins Award (Currently named the PEN Open Book Award)
Uwem Akpan, Say You’re One of Them
Juan Felipe Herrera, Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
Lily Hoang, Changing