2004 Literary Awards Winners
PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
Jonathan 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 Award
Mavis Gallant
PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards for a Master American Dramatist and for an American Playwright in Mid-Career
Lanford Wilson
Lynn Nottage
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Robert Pinsky
PEN/Gregory Kolovakos Award for Expansion of Hispanic Literature to an English-Language Audience
Coloa Franzen
Robert M. Laughlin
Alaxander Talyor
PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
Deborah Wiles
PEN/Diamonstein-Speilvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Stewart Justman, Seeds of Mortality (Ivan R. Dee)
Finalists
• Floyd Skloot, In the Shadow of Memory
• Alec Wilkinson, Mr. Apology
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction
Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Finalists
• Sheri Fink, War Hospital
• Earl Swift, Where They Lay
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
Anthony Swofford, Jarhead
Finalists
• Mary Cimarolli, The Bootlegger’s Other Daughter
• Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
PEN/Open Book Award for a Distinguished Work by an Author of Color
Laila Halaby, West of the Jordan: A Novel (Beacon Press)
Suki Kim, The Interpreter (Picador)
Nasdijj, The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping (Ballantine Books)
Willie Perdomo, Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax Press)
April Reynolds, Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel (Metropolitan Books)
PEN Translation Prize
Margaret Sayers Peden, Sepharad by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Finalists
• Linda Coverdale, Street of Lost Footsteps by Lyonel Trouillot
• Hillel Halkin, The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Peter Cole, J’Accuse by Aharon Shabtai
Finalists
• Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché with Sinan Antoon and Amira El-Zein(editing and translation),Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish
• Jen Hofer, Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women
• Joshua Beckman and Tomaz Salamun, Poker by Tomaz Salamun, translated by and the author