PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Susanna Daniel, Stiltsville (Harper)
Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead Trade)
Runner Up:
Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil (Harper Perennial)
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner)
Runner Up:
David Abram, Becoming Animal
PEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
Aleksandar Hemon
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
Robert Perkinson, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Runners Up:
John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Marcus Gardley
PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for a Master American Dramatist
David Henry Hwang
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press)
Runners Up:
Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Alex Ross, Listen to This
PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
George Dohrmann, Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books)
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Roger Angell
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown, and Company)
Runners Up:
Wendy Moffat, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Stewart
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Ishion Hutchinson, Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.)
PEN/Nora Magid Award
Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of A Public Space
PEN Open Book Award
Manu Joseph, Serious Men
Runner Up:
John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Lucy Frank, Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Khaled Mattawa, Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press)
Runners Up:
Jonathan Galassi, Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
Michael Hofmann, Angina Days by Gunter Eich
Charles Simic, Oranges and Snow by Milan Djordjević
PEN Translation Prize
Ibrahim Muhawi, Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books)
Runners Up:
David Bellos, Hocus Bogus by Romain Gary, publishing as Émile Ajar
Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons, The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights
PEN Translation Fund Grants
Amiri Ayanna, The St. Katharinental Sister Book: Lives of the Sisters of the Dominican Convent at Diessenhofen (from Middle High German)
Neil Blackadder, The Test (Good Simon Korach), a play by Swiss dramatist and novelist Lukas Bärfuss (from German)
Clarissa Botsford, Sworn Virgin, a novel by Albanian writer and filmmaker Elvira Dones (from Italian)
Steve Bradbury, Salsa, a collection of poems by Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü (from Chinese)
Annmarie S. Drury, collection of poems by Tanzanian poet Euphrase Kezilahabi (from Swahili)
Diane Nemec Ignashev, Paranoia, a novel by Belarusian author Viktor Martinovich (from Russian)
Chenxin Jiang, Memories of the Cowshed, a memoir by Chinese author Ji Xianlin (from Chinese)
Hilary B. Kaplan, Rilke Shake, a collection of poetry by Brazilian writer Angélica Freitas (from Portuguese)
Catherine Schelbert, Flametti, or the Dandyism of the Poor, a novel by German writer Hugo Ball (from German)
Joel Streicker, Birds in the Mouth, a collection of short stories by Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin (from Spanish)
Sarah L. Thomas, Turnaround, a literary thriller by Spanish writer Mar Goméz Glez (from Spanish)
PEN Emerging Writers Award for Fiction
Smith Henderson (nominated by Hannah Tinti of One Story)
Runner Up:
Elliott Holt (nominated by Joel Whitney of Guernica)
PEN Emerging Writers Award for Non-Fiction
David Stuart MacLean (nominated by Ladette Randolph of Ploughshares)
Runner Up:
Chester Phillips (nominated by Hattie Fletcher of Creative Nonfiction)
Poetry
Adam Day (nominated by Erica Wright of Guernica)
Runner Up: Brett Fletcher Lauer (nominated by Robert Casper of jubilat)