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Meet the Judges for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards
Longlists announced: March 17 Shortlists announced: April 16Winners announced: May 13 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony: June 8PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction ($25,000): Awarded to an author whose debut… More
2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Master American Dramatist
WinnerTina HoweThree awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and an… More
2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerAnne WashburnThree awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and an… More
Writers in the Schools: December–January
Volunteers Michael Saur, Jim Traub, and Maggie Paley work with students to tackle challenging essay topics including the prison system and abortion. More
2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerEliza Griswold, I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, translated from the Pashto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes… More
2015 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerDenise Newman for her translation from the Danish of Naja Marie Aidt's Baboon (Two Lines Press)The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize honors a book-length translation from any language into English.Click… More
2015 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing
Winner Rob Spillman for Tin House The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to… More
2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Winner Saeed Jones for Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press) The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes the high literary character of the published work… More
2015 PEN Open Book Award
WinnerClaudia Rankine for Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within… More
2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
WinnerAnna Whitelock, The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux )The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in… More