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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
Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for 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
2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
WinnerKimiko HahnThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the eighth time in 2008. The award is given to a poet… More
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
2008 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
WinnerDalia Sofer for her novel The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories published… More
2008 PEN/Nabokov Award
WinnerCynthia OzickThe PEN/Nabokov Award celebrates the accomplishments of a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, represents achievement in a variety of literary… More
2011 PEN Translation Fund Grants
WinnersThe PEN Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from an anonymous donor in response to the dismayingly low number of literary… More
2008 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerTheresa Nelson, author of the forthcoming novel Julia Delaney: The American Version, to be published by Atheneum BooksThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship established in 2001, provides an l/author… More
2008 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
WinnerJanet Malcolm for her book Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished biography possessing notable literary… More
2009 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
WinnerThis year’s award goes to Carol Lynch Williams, author of the forthcoming A Glimpse Is All I Can Stand, for which she is receiving the award.The PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working… More
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