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2012 PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerDan Jenkins2011 was the inaugural year of the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. This award is given to one living American or U.S.-based writer each year to… More
2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
WinnerDan Barry, Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game The $5,000 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing honors a nonfiction book about sports. Eligible titles should be… More
2012 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
WinnerJames Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodThe PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Prize celebrates writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences. The… More
2012 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerE.L. DoctorowThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence,… More
2009 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
WinnerThe PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction goes to a distinguished living American author of fiction whose body of work in English possesses qualities of excellence, ambition,… More
2012 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
WinnerVanessa Veselka, Zazen The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great… More
Middletown
Anyway, he was magnificent. The first expressive gesture. From that little curl of the toes to all of the world’s bibles and languages, it’s just a matter of time.… More
2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize
Inaugural Award WinnerSusan Nussbaum, for her novel Good Kings Bad KingsThe Bellwether Prize, which was established in 2000 by Barbara Kingsolver and is funded entirely by her, was created to… More
Ce N’est Pas Le Monde
Below is new graphic analysis by John Krygier and Denis Wood. It appears in PEN America 15: Maps. More