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2011 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
WinnerMark Slouka for Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations (Graywolf Press)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem… More
2010 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerMarshall Jon Fisher for A Terrible Splendor (Three Rivers Press/Crown)The PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. The award is open to books of a… More
2010 PEN/Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature
WinnerEsteban Bedoya for El Apocalipsis según BenedictoThe PEN/Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature was established by a $100,000 grant from Lily Tuck to assist with the translation of Paraguayan literature… More
2010 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerAnne Carson for her translation from the Greek of An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by EuripidesThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations… More
2009 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe mid-career award goes to Nilo Cruz, whose works include Anna in the Tropics, Beauty of the Father, Lorca in a Green Dress, Two Sisters and a Piano, A… More
2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award for Poetry
WinnerAdam Day (nominated by Erica Wright of Guernica)The PEN Emerging Writers Awards were established to promote talented up-and-coming authors whose writing has been featured in distinguished literary journals across… More
2009 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master Playwright
WinnerThis year’s Master playwright award goes to Sam Shepard, best known for his plays Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A… More
2009 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for Writers
WinnerDonald Ray Pollock for his collection Knockemstiff (Doubleday)The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories published in 2007—represents… More
2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award
WinnerCormac McCarthyThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence,… More
2009 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
WinnerSteve Coll for The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (The Penguin Press)The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book… More
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