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2012 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
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
2012 PEN Open Book Award
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
2012 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
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
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