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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
2010 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerThe 2010 PEN Translation Prize went to to Michael Henry Heim for his translation from the Dutch of Wonder by Hugo Claus.The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from any language into English. The prize has… More
2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Winner The winner of the 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is Toi Derricotte. The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, this award is given to a… More
2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship went to Pat Schmatz, author of the forthcoming Bluefish, for which she received the award.The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a… More
2006 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
WinnerThe 18th annual PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction will be given to both Amy Butler Greenfield for A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color… More
2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
WinnerThe 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography went to Stacy Schiff for Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown and Company).The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a prize of $5,000 given to a distinguished biography possessing… More
What She Knows
She gathers an empty bottle washed / ashore and tosses it far to sea. / It sinks, fills, becomes ocean, / I see through ages—it settles / by a… More
2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career Award went to Theresa Rebeck, whose works include Mauritius, The Water’s Edge, and The Scene.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master American… More
2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
WinnerThe 2010 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master Playwright went to David Mamet, best known for his plays American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, andGlengarry Glen Ross.The PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama recognize a master… More
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