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WinnerSarah Dooley, Free VerseThe PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, established in 2001, provides a writer with a measure of financial sustenance in order to make possible an extended period… More

WinnerSiddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New IndiaThe PEN Open Book Award was created by PEN American Center’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to… More

WinnerRobert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Random House)The PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography is awarded for excellence in the art of biography. This prize of $5,000 will… More

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

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

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

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

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