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Meet the Judges for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards
Longlists announced: December 5-9, 2016 Shortlists announced: January 18, 2017 Winners announced: February 22, 2017 2017 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony: March 27, 2017 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature ($50,000): To… More
2017 PEN/LAURA PELS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THEATER AWARD FOR A MASTER AMERICAN DRAMATIST
Three 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 emerging… More
2017 PEN/ESPN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING
Winner William "Bill" Nack [caption id="attachment_135440" align="alignright" width="153"] Credit, Roger Ebert[/caption] The PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each year to… More
2017 PEN/JOYCE OSTERWEIL AWARD FOR POETRY
Winner Natalie Scenters-Zapico, The Verging Cities (Center For Literary Publishing/Colorado State University) The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes the high literary character of… More
2017 PEN/JEAN STEIN GRANT FOR LITERARY ORAL HISTORY
Winner Aleksandar Hemon, How Did You Get Here?: Tales of Displacement The PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History recognizes a literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an… More
2017 PEN AWARD FOR POETRY IN TRANSLATION
Winner Simon Armitage for Pearl: A New Verse Translation (Liveright/W.W. Norton & Company) The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published during… More
2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Winner Tess Lewis, for her translation from the German of Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap (Archipelago Books) The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize honors a book-length translation from any language into English published… More
2017 PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
Winner Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize… More
2017 PEN/ESPN AWARD FOR LITERARY SPORTS WRITING
Winner Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss, Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should… More
PEN Basque: The Best Time For Basque Literature Has Come
The PEN World series showcases the important work of the more than 140 centers that form PEN International. Each PEN center sets its own priorities, but they are united… More
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