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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
2015 PEN Open Book Award
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
2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
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
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