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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

WinnerClaudia Rankine for Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within… More

WinnerAnna Whitelock, The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux )The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in… More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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