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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
PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize Winners
2015 Adriana E. Ramírez for "Dead Boys"Finalists:Melissa Petro for “Unbecoming”Liz Quinn for “The Forgotten Midwives of Guatemala”Krystal Sital for “Incantations”2016 Jean Guerrero for "Crux"Finalists:Victoria Blanco for “Visions of Oasis”Laurel… More
PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award For Literary Sports Writing Winners
2011 Roger Angell 2012 Dan Jenkins 2013 Frank Deford 2014 Dave Anderson 2015 Bob Ryan 2016 John Schulian 2017 William Nack More
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
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