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2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Master American Dramatist
WinnerTina HoweThree 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/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerAnne WashburnThree 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
Writers in the Schools: December–January
Volunteers Michael Saur, Jim Traub, and Maggie Paley work with students to tackle challenging essay topics including the prison system and abortion. More
Bahrain: Writers Stripped of Citizenship
Bahrain should take immediate steps to reinstate nationality for writers unduly stripped of their citizenship, PEN American Center said in a statement today. This weekend, Bahrain revoked the citizenship… More
Argumentative Essay
This essay was written by Jazatte Dalisay, a ninth-grade student at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, and participant in PEN's Writers in the Schools program. More
2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerEliza Griswold, I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, translated from the Pashto (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes… More
2015 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerDenise Newman for her translation from the Danish of Naja Marie Aidt's Baboon (Two Lines Press)The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize honors a book-length translation from any language into English.Click… More
2015 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Editing
Winner Rob Spillman for Tin House The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to… More
2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
Winner Saeed Jones for Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press) The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes the high literary character of the published work… More
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