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WinnerRowan Ricardo Phillips forThe GroundThe 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 to date… More

WinnerRobert Hass, What Light Can Do (Ecco)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… More

WinnerLarry KramerThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in… More

WinnerSergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity (University of Chicago Press)The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished… More

WinnerFrank Deford2011 was the inaugural year of the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. This award is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each year to… More

WinnerMark Kram, Jr., Like Any Normal Day (St. Martin's Press)The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be of a biographical, investigative, historical, or… More

WinnerMichelle Markel, The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau (Eerdmans)The PEN/Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing was established in memory of Steven Kroll to acknowledge the distinct literary contributions of… More

WinnersMonika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery of Mother Jones 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… More

WinnerLeonard Mlodinow, Subliminal (Pantheon)The PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Prize celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The winner receives a cash award of… More