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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
2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist honored David Henry Hwang.The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist… More
2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career went to Marcus Gardley.The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American… More
[the air and its quality, the soft moon which we notice]
your friends gathered around the / record player singing guthrie tunes // too wistful for a work nite / or just wistful enough to fight as a result of… 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