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2009 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master Playwright
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
PEN Emerging Writers Award for Non-fiction
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
2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award for Fiction
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
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Master Playwright
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
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
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
2011 PEN Translation Fund Grants
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
2009 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
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
2009 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
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
2009 PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry
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
2009 PEN/Nora Magid Award
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