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Free Writing
The recent winner of Britain's oldest literary award doesn't think his debut novel would have found success if it had first been published in his native Bangladesh. More
Free Expression Digest: Fri., November 6
Zimbabwe photo journalist assaulted, Hong Kong court extends press gag, and a Macedonian media owner is brutally beaten. More
The Arab of the Future
The French bestseller details the author's childhood in rural France, Libya, and Syria, in the shadows of three dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his own father. More
2016 PEN Translation Prize
Winner Katrina Dodson for her translation of Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories (New Directions) Read an excerpt » The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize invites submissions of book-length translations from any language into… More
2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerSawako Nakayasu for The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books) Read an excerpt »The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation is conferred every year in New York. The… More
2016 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerAsh Parsons for "A Chemical Distance" (Available for publication)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction. It has… More
2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner Scott Ellsworth for The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph (Little, Brown and Company /Hachette Book Group) Read an excerpt » The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award… More
2016 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
Winner John Schulian The PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing, which was conferred for the first time in the fall of 2011, is given to one living American or… More
2016 PEN/Voelcker Award
Winner Ed Roberson The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, this award is given to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to… More
2016 PEN Open Book Award
Winner Rick Barot for Chord (Sarabande Books) Read an excerpt » The PEN Open Book Award, formerly the Beyond Margins Awards, invites submissions of book-length writings by authors of color, published… More