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2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career went to Marcus Gardley.The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American… More
2010 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerThe 2010 PEN Translation Prize went to to Michael Henry Heim for his translation from the Dutch of Wonder by Hugo Claus.The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English. The prize has… More
2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship went to Pat Schmatz, author of the forthcoming Bluefish, for which she received the award.The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a… More
2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography went to Stacy Schiff for Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown and Company).The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a prize of $5,000 given to a distinguished biography possessing… More
2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career Award went to Theresa Rebeck, whose works include Mauritius, The Water’s Edge, and The Scene.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master American… More
2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master Playwright went to David Mamet, best known for his plays American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, andGlengarry Glen Ross.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master… More
2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing went to George Dohrmann for Play Their Hearts Out (Ballantine Books).The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles… More
2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction will go to Don DeLillo. The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of… More
2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers went to Paul Harding for his novel Tinkers.The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement… More
PEN Launches New Declaration on Digital Freedom
PEN launched its new Declaration on Digital Freedom at the Istanbul Book Fair, signaling our embrace of free expression challenges in the 21st century. More