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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

WinnerAmy Goldman Koss, The Intake Office The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make possible an extended period… More

WinnerTom Reiss, The Black Count (Broadway Books)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will go to the author of a… More

WinnerKatherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House)The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective… More

WinnerMolly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English… More

WinnersGina Apostol, Gun Dealers' Daughter (W.W. Norton & Co.)Kevin Young, The Grey Album (Graywolf Press)The PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic… More

WinnerDonald O. White for The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen (Overlook Press)The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English. The prize has been supported since… More