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2016 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize
WinnerJean Guerrero for "Crux" (Available for Publication)The PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses… More
2016 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates for Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau/Random House) Read an excerpt » The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity… More
2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction
WinnerLisa Ko for "The Leavers" (Forthcoming from Algonquin Books)The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to promote… More
Free Expression Digest: Thurs., November 5
Myanmar activist arrested, Homophobic bill would penalize Russians, and Nigeria denies entry of activist memorial. More
2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Winner Toni Morrison The PEN/Saul Bellow Award goes to a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank… More
2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerMia Alvar for In the Country: Stories (Alfred A. Knopf)Read an excerpt » The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection… More
Fouling One’s Own Nest: On Translating Horacio Castellanos Moya
But Horacio Castellanos Moya and Thomas Bernhard pretty much flip their native countries the bird; not because they’re elitist, but because they’re raging idealists and lovers of the arts. More
Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador
Lee Klein is the recipient of a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of what Roberto Bolaño called Moya's best work. Moya invokes Bernhard's most characteristic mode:… More
Free Expression Digest: Wed., November 4
UK Investigatory Powers Bill overview, Taliban claims killing of Pakistani journalist, and fourth Zimbabwean reporter is arrested this week. More
Replacement Songs
An experiment called soon / I’ll fall asleep in your pick-up / beyond the near grey mountains / smiling up at the moon and / here’s one called the… More
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