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Prison Writing Award Winners: 2009-2010

Every year, hundreds of imprisoned writers from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free… More

Prison Writing Award Winners: 2010-2011

Every year, hundreds of imprisoned writers from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free… More

1963 Literary Award Winner

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Archibald Colquhoun, The Viceroys by Federico de Roberto (Harcourt Brace) More

1965 Literary Award Winner

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeJoseph Barnes, The Story of a Life by Konstantin Paustovsky (Pantheon) More

Prison Writing Award Winners: 2011-2012

Every year, hundreds of imprisoned writers from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to PEN America’s Prison Writing Contest, one of the few outlets of free… More

1966 Literary Award Winner

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Geoffrey Skelton & Adrian Mitchell, MaratSade by Peter Weiss (Atheneum) More

1968 Literary Award Winner

Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Vladimir Markov & Merrill Sparks, editors, Modern Russian Poetry (Bobbs-Merrill) More