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2014 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerJoanne Turnbull & Nikolai Formozov, Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (New York Review Books)The $3,000 PEN Translation Prize honors a book-length translation from any language into English.2014… More
2014 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerKaren Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago)The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published… More
2014 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Master American Dramatist
WinnerDavid RabeThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize three playwrights for the following honors: a specially commissioned art object will be presented to a master American dramatist, in recognition… More
2014 PEN Open Book Award
Winners Ruth Ellen Kocher, domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press) Nina McConigley The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity… More
2014 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerLinda Oatman High, "The Taste of Elephant Tears"The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make… More
2014 PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing
WinnerBil Lepp, The King of Little Things (Peachtree Publishers)The PEN/Steven Kroll Award was established in memory of Steven Kroll to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of picture book writers.… More
2014 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMark Fainaru-Wada & Steve Fainaru, League of Denial (Crown Archetype)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a… More
2014 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerDave AndersonThe 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
2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerJames Wolcott, Critical Mass (Doubleday)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner… More
2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
WinnerRon Childress for his manuscript And West Is West (forthcoming from Algonquin Books October, 2014)The Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely… More