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PEN/Jerard Fund Award Winners
(This award was offered every other year in odd-numbered years.) 2001 Colette Brooks, In the City: Random Acts of Awareness (W.W. Norton & Company) 2003 Rachel Cohen, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined… More
PEN/Gregory Kolovakos Award for Expansion of Hispanic Literature to an English-Language Audience Winners
2001 Gregory Rabassa and Alastar Reid 2004 Cola Franzen, Robert M. Laughlin, and Alexander Taylor More
PEN Emerging Writers Awards Winners
Poetry 2011 Adam Day Fiction 2011 Smith Henderson Nonfiction 2011 David Stuart MacLean More
PEN/Bruno Schulz Prize Winners
1988 Zbigniew Herbert 1989 Danilo Kiš More
PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts Winners
2000 Anne Hollander 2001 Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past (Yale University Press) Deborah Silverman, Van Gogh and Gauguin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) More
PEN/Amazon.com Short Story Award Winners
2000 Marlene Reed Wetzel for ''A Map of Tripoli, 1967" Runners-up: Thomas Cockrell Holiday Reinhorn Paul Rusconi More
PEN’s 2015 Case List documents decline in freedom of expression worldwide
The 2015 Case List, published today by PEN, spotlights freedom of expression violations around the world, detailing over 1000 cases of harassment, arrests, attacks, killings, and imprisonments of writers… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., May 4
Israel holding six Palestinian journalists without charges, Nigerian journalist arrested for news report, UNESCO lauds Ismayilova amid mounting pressure for journalist's freedom. More
from The Immanent Field
Additional officers were brought in when they realized the protestors didn’t want any one thing • What the state wants is an artist class that entertains, like wrestlers More
The PEN Ten with Trish Salah
"Censorship is inevitable, part of psychic life and engaging with other people. The censorship of political speech is deplorable and to be resisted, but also is often not recognized… More
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