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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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