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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
2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Winner Nancy Princenthal for Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson) Read an excerpt » The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of… More
2016 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an Emerging American Playwright
WinnerBranden Jacobs-JenkinsThree awards from PEN and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater honor a Grand Master of American Theater, a mid-career playwright with an outstanding voice, and an… More