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PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing Winners

(This award is offered every other year, in odd-numbered years.) 1993  Peter Stitt, Gettysburg Review 1995  Herbert Leibowitz, Parnassus 1997  Wendy Lesser, The Threepenny Review 1999  Stan Lindberg, Georgia Review 2001  Askold Melnyczuk, AGNI 2003… More

Free Expression Digest: Fri., April 29

Turkish authorities deport Finnish journalist, Sri Lankan protest demands probe into reporter's killing, Two Turkish journalists jailed for republishing 'Charlie Hebdo' cover. More

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winners

2008  Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press) 2009  Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema (Picador) 2010  Michael Scammell, Koestler (Random House) 2011  Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown… More

PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Recipients

2004 Andrea Berger for her translation from the Hungarian of The Birds of the Air by Zsolt Lang Philip Boehm for his translation from the German of Settlement by Christoph… More

PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Winners

(This award is offered every other year in even-numbered years.)1994 Jane Kenyon1996 Franz Wright1998 C. K. Williams2000 Heather McHugh2002 Frederick Seidel2004 Robert Pinsky2006 Linda Gregg2008 Kimiko Hahn2010 Marilyn Hacker2012… More

PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation Winners

(This award is offered every three years.) 1982  Gregory Rabassa 1985  Richard Howard 1988  Ralph Manheim 1991  William Weaver 1994  Richard Wilbur 1997  Robert Fagles 2000  Edmund Keeley 2003  Donald Keene 2006  Edith Grossman 2009  Michael Henry Heim 2012  Margaret… More

PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Winners

1999  Nick Flynn, Some Ether: Poems (Graywolf Press) 2001  Richard Matthews, The Mill is Burning (Grove Press) 2003  Dana Levin, In the Surgical Theater (Copper Canyon Press) 2005  Yerra Sugarman, Forms of… More