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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
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/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Winners
2007 Philip Roth 2009 Cormac McCarthy 2010 Don DeLillo 2012 E.L. Doctorow 2014 Louise Erdrich 2016 Toni Morrison 2018 Edmund White 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
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