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2013 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
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
2013 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
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
2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
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
2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
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
2013 PEN Open Book Award
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
2013 PEN Translation Prize
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
Five Poems by Susan Scarlata
That no one uploads // this moth dust or downloads that bear strut. / Hear it. That we use our intricate moves for / something with succor. Hear it.… More
President Obama: Discuss Human Rights in Vietnam
PEN urges President Obama to use his meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to press for the release of dozens of writers who have been detained for their… More
The Girl on a Leash
Her mother’s flaky hands scraped against her daughter’s forehead. Once they had been like candle wax. She said, “Are we wrong?” Her father said, “Do you want to raise… More
PEN, Book Community Partners Renew Call to Amend Patriot Act
In the wake of revelations about the scope of the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and authors today called on Congress to pass legislation… More