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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
Thought Is Free
PEN American Center and The Public Theater are proud to present a program in support of writers and artists who have been imprisoned or imperiled for speaking truth to… More
Excerpts from Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
International P.E.N. is an organization of terribly old European cultural bureaucrats who meet twice a year to discuss World War Two. It is mainly financed by Americans and West… More
1968 Literary Award Winner
Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Vladimir Markov & Merrill Sparks, editors, Modern Russian Poetry (Bobbs-Merrill) 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
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
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
Priority Campaigns
PEN America is engaged in several large-scale initiatives to protect freedom of expression and promote fundamental rights in the United States and around the world. Read below to learn… More
In Conversation: Ludmila Ulitskaya
With Anderson Tepper and Ludmila UlitskayaRecipient of the 2002 Russian Booker Prize, Ludmila Ulitskaya is considered the heir to Chekhov and among the most important writers in Russia today.… More
Vladimir Sorokin: Ice Trilogy (Play Reading)
April 30, 2011 | Old Gym | New York City With Vladimir Sorokin and Kornél Mundruczó Co-sponsored by Trust for Mutual Understanding and Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate School A… More
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