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2003 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the MemoirRick Moody, The Black Veil (Little Brown)PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First NonfictionDaniel Wilkinson, Silence on the Mountain (Houghton)PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer… More
2004 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeJonathan Safron Foer, Everything is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Will Heinrich, The King's Evil (Scribner) Monique Truong, The Book of Salt (Mariner Books) PEN/Nabokov AwardMavis GallantPEN/Laura Pels International Foundation… More
2005 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist and an American Playwright in Mid-CareerWallace ShawnDael OrlandersmithPEN/Martha Albrand Award for First NonfictionSam Harris, The End of FaithRunners… More
2006 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the MemoirGregory Rabassa, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its DyscontentsFinalistsDan Hofstadter, Falling Palace: A Romance of NaplesMaggie Nelson, Jane: A MurderPEN/Martha Albrand Award for… More
2007 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Philip Roth PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Janna Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turning Machines (Knopf) Finalists Tony D’Souza, Whiteman (Harcourt) Katherine Min, Secondhand World (Knopf) PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction James… More
2008 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Nabokov Award for FictionCynthia Ozick, What Happened to the Baby PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeDalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz (Ecco)Finalists:Joshua Ferris, Then We Come to an End (Little, Brown, & Co.) Alex Mindt, The… More
2009 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Nabokov AwardPhilip RothPEN/Robert Bingham Fellowships for WritersDonald Ray Pollock, KnockemstiffPEN/Saul Bellow AwardCormac McCarthyPEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American… More
2010 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizePaul Harding, Tinkers (Bellevue Literary Press)PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American FictionDon DeLilloPEN/W. G. Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-CareerSusan ChoiPEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for… More
2011 Literary Award Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeSusanna Daniel, Stiltsville (Harper) Danielle Evans, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead Trade)Runner Up:Teddy Wayne, Kapitoil (Harper Perennial)PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardSiddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor… More
Good Kings, Bad Kings
One thing I didn’t remember to think about is nothing never happens around here. Some cars drove by, and maybe the drivers looked at me? But they didn’t look… More