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Holi Songs of Demerara
Rajiv Mohabir is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Lalbihari Sharma’s Holi Songs of Demerara, the only known literary work by one… More
Ancestral Hauntings: On Translating Lalbihari Sharma
These poems and their themes of separation from the beloved inform a very Caribbean poetic: one of struggle and cultural fragmenting. More
My Life, I Lapped it Up: On Translating the Poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti
Untitled, lowercased, long-lined, the poems in Reisebilder resemble pages in a flipbook, detailing brief encounters in restaurants, museums and hotel rooms. More
The Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti
The first comprehensive English translation of one of post-war Italy’s most important poets. Edoardo Sanguineti’s oeuvre spans the avant garde of the early '60s to the more introspective romanticism… More
Free Writing
The recent winner of Britain's oldest literary award doesn't think his debut novel would have found success if it had first been published in his native Bangladesh. More
2016 PEN Translation Prize
Winner Katrina Dodson for her translation of Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories (New Directions) Read an excerpt » The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into… More
2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerSawako Nakayasu for The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books) Read an excerpt »The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is conferred every year in New York. The… More
2016 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerAsh Parsons for "A Chemical Distance" (Available for publication)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. It has… More
2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner Scott Ellsworth for The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph (Little, Brown and Company /Hachette Book Group) Read an excerpt » The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award… More
2016 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner John Schulian The PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, which was conferred for the first time in the fall of 2011, is given to one living American or… More
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