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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winner Luke Dittrich, Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Penguin Random House)  The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the… More