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PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing Winners
2010 Marshall Jon Fisher, A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played (Broadway Books) Runners-up: Richard Hoffer, Something in the Air:… More
PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature Winners
2010 Esteban Bedoya, El Apocalipsis según Benedicto2012 Delfina Acosta, Versos de amor y de locura (Editorial Servilibro)2014 Raúl Silva Alonso, En Tacumbu (El Lector)2016 Nathalia María Echauri Castagnino, Doce… More
PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Winners
2011 Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner) 2012 James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon) 2013 Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: How Your… More
PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award Winners
1990 Bernard Knox, Essays Ancient and Modern (Johns Hopkins) 1991 Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge (Oxford) 1992 David B. Morris, The Culture of Pain (University of California) 1993 Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear… More
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Winners
1996 Guy Davenport, editor and translator, 7 Greeks, (New Directions) 1997 Edward Snow, Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 1998 Eamon Grennan, Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi… More
Conversion on the Road to Malha
Orner is a master at delineating cultural divides and human foibles, and in this series of autobiographical stories set in Israel, he’s as sharply observant and drolly humorous as… More
Detention of Journalist Omar Nazzal Punctuates Crackdown on Speech in Israel
PEN America today called on the Israeli government to make public the basis for the arrest of Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal. More
Five Poems by Steven Alvarez
0:44these are citizens of the united states championship / 0:49which is issued from former democratic fight hackers are children before you / 0:55think you have to have a very… More
Free Expression Daily Digest: Thurs., April 28
Book debate raises questions of self-censorship by foreign groups in China, Tehran court jails three Iranian journalists for spreading propaganda, What Vietnam's new media laws may mean for its… More
President Obama: Press Vietnam to Release Imprisoned Activists
PEN America joins a coalition of organizations calling on President Obama to press for the release of imprisoned activists in Vietnam. More
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