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2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award for Fiction
WinnerSmith Henderson (nominated by Hannah Tinti of One Story)The PEN Emerging Writers Awards were established to promote talented up-and-coming authors whose writing has been featured in distinguished literary journals… More
2006 Translation Fund Grants
WinnersJohannes Goransson for his translation from the Finland-Swedish of The Collected Poems of Henry ParlandVictoria Haggblom for her translation from the Swedish of To Mervas, a novel by Elizabeth… More
2006 PEN/Nabokov Award
WinnerPhilip RothThe PEN/Nabokov Award is given to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. The… More
A Day in the Life of a Prisoner
Everyone smoked in the old days, and convicts made picture frames and jewelry boxes out of woven cigarette packaging. People made cardboard shelves and curtains for their cells. It… More
2006 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
WinnerLinda GreggThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the seventh time in 2006. The award is given to a poet… More
2006 Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
WinnerEdith Grossman, who has translated major works by Miguel de Cervantes and Gabriel García MárquezThe Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation is given every three years to a translator whose… More
2006 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
WinnerGregory Rabassa for his memoir If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents (New Directions)The PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir is given to an American… More
2008 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnerSarah Ruhl, whose plays include The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn award, 2004, finalist for Pulitzer Prize, 2005), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Demeter in the City (nominated for an… More
2008 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
WinnerRichard Nelson, best known for his plays Goodnight Children Everywhere, Some American Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors, Conversations in Tusculum, Madame Melville, The General From America, Frank’s Home, New England,… More
The Target
Three days before Tuesday, I told him. He bought box cutters and ducktape. My father dropped his face into his Wilt Chamberlain hands. The items gave my story the… More
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