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PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Winners
1989 Merrill Gilfillan, Magpie Rising (Pruett Publishing Company) 1990 Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) 1991 Gerald Marzorati, A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times (Viking) 1992 Nicholas… More
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Winners
1998 Peter Balakian, Black Dog of Fate (Basic) 1999 Ted Solotaroff, Truth Comes in Blows (Norton) 2000 Jeffery Smith, Where the Roots Reach for Water (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 2001 … More
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