WinnerThis year’s Master playwright award goes to Sam Shepard, best known for his plays Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A… More

WinnerDavid Stuart MacLean (nominated by Ladette Randolph of Ploughshares)The PEN Emerging Writers Awards were established to promote talented up-and-coming authors whose writing has been featured in distinguished literary journals… More

WinnerSmith Henderson (nominated by Hannah Tinti of One Story)The PEN Emerging Writers Awards were established to promote talented up-and-coming authors whose writing has been featured in distinguished literary journals… More

WinnerThis year’s Master playwright award goes to Sam Shepard, best known for his plays Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A… More

WinnerThe mid-career award goes to Nilo Cruz, whose works include Anna in the Tropics, Beauty of the Father, Lorca in a Green Dress, Two Sisters and a Piano, A… More

WinnersThe PEN Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from an anonymous donor in response to the dismayingly low number of literary… More

WinnerThis year’s award goes to Carol Lynch Williams, author of the forthcoming A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand, for which she is receiving the award.The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working… More

WinnerThe 2009 award will be given to Richard Brody for Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Metropolitan Books).The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a prize of… More

WinnerThis year’s award goes to Jeffrey Yang, author of An Aquarium (Graywolf Press).The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes… More

WinnerThis year’s recipient is Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story.The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his… More