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2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award for Theater Award for an Emerging American Playwright
WinnerJennifer BlackmerThree 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
2015 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerBob Ryan 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
2015 PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerJohn Branch, Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard (W. W. Norton & Company)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible… More
2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Winner Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown) The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing… More
2015 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
WinnerJoshua Horwitz, War of the Whales: A True Story (Simon & Schuster)The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical… More
2015 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerIan Buruma for Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadows of War (New York Review Books)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity… More
2015 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerStephanie Keuhn for The Pragmatist (Forthcoming from Dutton/ Penguin Books)The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make… More
2015 PEN/ Fusion Emerging Writers Prize
WinnerAdriana E. Ramírez for her manuscript Dead Boys The PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize is an annual award that recognizes a promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that… More
2015 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerJack Livings for The Dog (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement… More
Dear Monster: The Naked Poetry of Gozo Yoshimasu
Gozo Yoshimasu, an aurally and visually stunning poet known for his Talmudic density, struggles to respond to the 3.11 nuclear disaster in Japan. In her deft, polyvalent translation, Okamoto… More