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The Tragic Reality of Human Existence
This piece was read by Boris Akunin at the opening night of the 2016 PEN World Voices Festival, where authors shared their philosophical inquiries into society’s need for mind-altering… More
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship Winners
2001 Graham McNamee, Sparks (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2002) 2002 Lori Aurelia Williams, Broken China (Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster, 2006) 2003 Franny Billingsley, The Black Mountains (Available for publication) 2004 Deborah Wiles, [Untitled]… More
Oman: Prominent artist released from detention
PEN welcomes the release of renowned Omani writer and intellectual Abdullah Habib on May 4, 2016. More
Russian Author Ludmila Ulitskaya Attacked at Awards Ceremony
An attack on Thursday against the acclaimed writer Ludmila Ulitskaya and others attending an awards ceremony for high school students is an appalling demonstration of disrespect for even the… More
PEN Open Book Award Winners
(This award was formerly called the PEN Beyond Margins Award.) 2002 Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart (Triquarterly Books) Luis Francia, Eye of the Fish (Kaya Press) … More
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
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winners
(This award is offered every other year, in odd-numbered years.) 2007 James Carroll, House of War (Mariner Books) Runners-Up: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights… 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
Winners of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards
For a Master American Dramatist: 1998 Arthur Miller 1999 Edward Albee 2000 Horton Foote 2001 Richard Foreman 2002 Maria Irene Fornes 2003 John Guare 2004 Lanford Wilson 2005 Wallace Shawn 2006 Adrienne Kennedy 2007 A.… 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
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