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2009 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

WinnerThis year’s award goes to Marilyn Hacker for her translation from the French of King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).The PEN Award for… More

2011PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship

WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship went to Lucy Frank for Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling, a novel in verse (available for publication).The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer… More

2009 The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation

WinnerThis year’s honoree is Michael Henry Heim.The Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose career has demonstrated a commitment to excellence through… More

2011 PEN Open Book Award

WinnerThe 2011 Open Book Award went to Manu Joseph for Serious Men (W. W. Norton & Company).The PEN Open Book Awards were created by PEN American Center’s Open Book… More

2011 PEN/Nora Magid Award

WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Nora Magid Award went to Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of A Public Space.The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards… More

2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

WinnerThe 2011 PEN /Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry went to Ishion Hutchinson for Far District (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.).The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in… More

Bringer of Fire

“Bugs? You got me for fucking bugs?!” He savagely backhanded me and I fell to the floor, the taste of copper in my mouth. Standing over me he screamed… More