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2009 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
WinnerThe 2009 award will be given to Richard Brody for Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard (Metropolitan Books).The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award is a prize of… More
2008 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerRosmarie Waldrop for her translation from the German of Lingos I-IX (Burning Deck Press) by Ulf StolterfohtThe PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ($3,000) recognizes book-length translations of poetry… More
2009 PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry
WinnerThis year’s award goes to Jeffrey Yang, author of An Aquarium (Graywolf Press).The PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry of $5,000 is given in odd-numbered years and recognizes… More
2009 PEN/Nora Magid Award
WinnerThis year’s recipient is Hannah Tinti, editor of One Story.The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his… More
2011 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerThe 2011 PEN Translation Prize went to Ibrahim Muhawi for Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish (Archipelago Books).The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations from… More
2009 PEN Translation Prize
WinnerThis year’s award goes to Natasha Wimmer for her translation from the Spanish of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).The PEN Translation Prize is awarded to book-length translations… More
2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
WinnerThe 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation went to Khaled Mattawa for Adonis: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, The Margellos World Republic of Letters Series).The PEN Award for… More
2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
WinnersWill Eno and Adam RappRead excerpts from Middletown (Will Eno) and Through the Yellow Hour (Adam Rapp)The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright… More
2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist
WinnerChristopher DurangThe PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards recognize a master American dramatist and an American playwright in mid-career, both of whose literary achievements are vividly apparent in… More
2012 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award
WinnerChristopher Hitchens, Arguably (Twelve)The PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for Art of the Essay aims to preserve the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature. The winner receives a cash award… More