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2007 PEN/Nora Magid Award
WinnerBradford Morrow, editor of ConjunctionsThe PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly… More
Tell Me the Story Again About the Frogs, and the Seeds
Yes, yes all the plants are dead. / And all the animals bigger than scarab beetles; / but the seeds have been waiting in the ground. / When the… More
2007 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to an American Playwright in Mid Career
WinnerNaomi Iizuka, whose works include 36 Views, War of the Worlds, Language of the Angels, and Tattoo Girl. As is the case with all PEN awards, the judges of… More
2007 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for Drama to a Master American Dramatist
WinnerA.R. Gurney, best known for his plays The Dining Room, What I Did Last Summer, The Perfect Party, Mrs. Farnsworth, and Scenes from an American LifeThe PEN/Laura Pels Foundation… More
2007 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers
WinnerJanna Levin for her novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (Knopf)The PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or… More
2007 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerPhilip RothThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award, selected by a panel of three PEN members or similarly qualified persons, goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of… More
2007 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
James Carroll for his book House of War (Houghton Mifflin)The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award is a biennial award given to a distinguished book of general nonfiction possessing notable literary… More
PEN Launches New Declaration on Digital Freedom
PEN launched its new Declaration on Digital Freedom at the Istanbul Book Fair, signaling our embrace of free expression challenges in the 21st century. More
PEN Launches New Declaration on Digital Freedom
PEN launched its new Declaration on Digital Freedom today at the Istanbul Book Fair, signaling its embrace of free expression challenges in the 21st century. More
Turkey: Reform Laws Stifling Writers, Publishers, Translators, Journalists
A delegation of writers from PEN International today called on the government of Turkey to take “quick and concrete action” to reverse an alarming rise in the number of… More
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